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VII 




William Hastings 
was the youngest. 



DANIEL HARTMAN HASTINGS, 
Governor of Pennsylvania, was born 
in Lamar Township, Clinton County, Pa., 
February 26, [849, and was named for Rev. 
Daniel Hartman,a minister who for sixty 
years traveled the circuits of the Central 
Pennsylvania Conference of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. He was the son 
of William and Sarah Fullerton Hast- 
ings. William Hastings was born in 
Burncrana, County of Deny, Ireland, in 
a little low thatched cabin wherein his 
father, grandfather and great-grandfather 
were ushered into this world. Sarah 
Fullerton was a native of Ayreshire, 
Scotland. The parents of both emi- 
grated to America when quite young and 
settled near Salona, Clinton County, Pa. 
father of nine children, of whom Daniel 



was the 
The latter acquired his early education in the public 
schools. Before fifteen years old he heard of a school without a teacher 
and walked through the snow twenty miles to secure it, and was suc- 
cessful. In 1867 he became principal of Bellefonte Academy and super- 
intendent of the public schools of the town. He occupied these positions 
for seven years, and, after passing creditably through a college course, for 
three years subsequently was editor of the Bellefonte Republican . He 
was admitted to practice at the bar of Centre County in 1875 and practiced 
his profession until 1S88, when he associated himself with Governor Beaver 
and others in the development of the coal fields of northern Cambria County. 
He retired from the coal business nearly two years ago. That General 
Hastings was not in the War of the Rebellion was not due to a lack of patri- 
otic ardor, but to his extreme youth, he having made several unsuccessful 
efforts to enroll himself as one of his country's soldiers. In 1877 ne entered 
the National Guard, and, after having filled several positions, in 1887 was 
appointed Adjutant General of Pennsylvania by Governor Beaver. He was a 
member of the commission that framed the law for the reorganization of the 
National Guard. In 1886 he placed General Beaver in nomination for Gov- 
ernor and in 1888 was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Conven- 
tion and placed John Sherman in nomination for the Presidency in a speech 
of great force. In 1890 became within eleven votes of being nominated for 
Governor and in 1894 was unanimously nominated in response to an over- 
whelming demand from the Republican Party and was elected by a majority 
larger than the aggregated majorities received by all gubernatorial candi- 
dates since the organization of the Republican Part}', his majority being 241,- 
397. It is needless to refer to his grand work after the Johnstown flood, as 
history is replete with descriptions of it. In 1877 General Hastings was mar- 
ried to Miss Jane Armstrong Rankin, daughter of the late James H. Rankin, 
a leading lawyer at the Bellefonte bar, and they have two daughters. 



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WALTER LYON, Lieutenant Gover- 
nor of Pennsylvania, was born in 
Shaler Township, Allegheny County, 
April 27, 1853. At the age of fourteen 
years he left the public schools and started 
out in life to earn a livelihood. By rigid 
economy he saved a little money, which 
enabled him to take a course at Duff's 
College, in Pittsburg. He subsequently 
attended the Academy on Fifth avenue, 
Pittsburg, of which City Controller Gour- 
ley was the principal, and supplemented 
this schooling by taking advantage of one 
year's tuition in Professor Wakeman's 
select school in Allegheny. This com- 
pleted his school education, and at the age 
of seventeen years he began to teach in his 
native township, followed by being ap- 
pointed principal of the Mill vale Schools. While teaching, which covered a 
period of three years, he recited at night to Professor Bradley, of the Alle- 
gheny Observatory, and possessed himself of an excellent education. In 
1877 he was admitted to practice in the courts of Allegheny County and soon 
built up a good practice as a lawyer. He is now associated in the law with 
Charles H. McKee and F. Sanderson, ex-Deputy Attorney General of Penn- 
sylvania. Mr. Lyon has always been active in Republican politics, both in 
Allegheny County and the State. He was a delegate to the State Conven- 
tions of 1881, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890 and 1893, and was 
temporary chairman of the conventions of 1887 and 1889, and permanent 
chairman of the convention of 1890. In 1887 Governor Beaver tendered him 
the position of Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, but he declined the 
honor. President Harrison, in June, 1889, appointed him to the responsible 
office of United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsyl- 
vania, embracing 46 of the 67 counties of the State, and he discharged its 
important duties until April , 1 893 , when he was elected to the State Senate to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. John N. Neeb. Although his term 
of service was short, Senator Lyon gave all the evidence of a careful and 
competent legislator and paved the way to the higher honor bestowed on him 
by his part} 7 in nominating him for Lieutenant Governor. 



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FRANK REEDER, Secretary of the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is 
the son of Andrew Reeder, once ( xovernor 
of Kansas, and Amalia Hutter Reeder. 
He was born in Easton, Northampton 
Comity, Pa., May 22, 1845, and was 
educated at Allentown (Pa.)> Lawrence- 
ville(N. J.), and Edge Hill, Princeton I N. 
J.), Schools and Princeton College and 
Albany Law School, Albany, New York. 
He entered the military service Septem- 
ber, 1862, and was connected during the 
war with Company I, Fifth Regiment 
(Emergency, 1862), One Hundred and 
Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment 
and Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. 
He was discharged June 6, 1866, as 
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the 
Nineteenth Cavalry, the last volunteer regiment in the service. He was 
wounded at Nashville, December 17, 1864. In 1867 he entered the Albany 
Law School and was graduated from it in 1868. He was admitted to prac- 
tice in the New York Supreme Court March, 1868, and began the practice 
of law in the office of Hon. J. K. Porter,- New York City. In the fall of 
1868 he took offices with General C. A. Arthur, afterward President of the 
United States. He left New York and returned to Easton in 1870 and 
entered into partnership with Howard J. Reeder, the general's brother, 
under the firm title of Reeder & Reeder. The firm was twice dissolved from 
1870 to 1895 by the retirement of Howard J. Reeder, to assume the duties 
of a Common Pleas Judge in Northampton County. General Reeder was 
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue by President Grant for the Eleventh 
District of Pennsylvania in 1873 and served until 1876. In 1872 he was 
highly honored by having conferred on him the position of Department 
Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania. In 1874 
he was appointed Brigadier General of the Pennsylvania National Guard, 
which office he resigned in 188 1. He was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention of 1888 and was defeated for Congress in the Eighth 
District the same year. He was a member of the committee in 1888 to 
notify the Republican candidates for President and Yice President of their 
nomination, and he was placed on the Republican ticket as a candidate for 
the proposed Constitutional Convention in 189 1. In that year he took 
charge of the Republican campaign, when Lieutenant Governor Watres, State 
chairman, was called to Harrisburg to preside at the special session of the 
Senate. In 1892 he was again defeated for Congress in the Tenth Legion, 
famous for its overwhelming Democratic majorities. He was a delegate-at- 
large to the National Convention of 1892 and filled the position of State 
chairman the same year. General Reeder was married October 21, 1868, to 
Grace E. Thompson, of Boston, Mass., and they have had four sons, three 
of whom are living, Andrew H., Frank, Jr., and Douglass Wyman. 



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ENRY CLAY McCORMICK, 
Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 
was born June 30, 1844, in Washington 
Township, Lycoming County, and is 
descended from a long line of worthy 
ancestry. His father was Seth T. 
McCormick and his mother Ellen 
McCormick. In his boyhood years he 
worked on his father's farm and 
attended the public schools. In 1861 
his parents removed to Williamsport, 
and the following year he was one of the 
most industrious students in the Dickin- 
son Seminary in that town. In 1863 
he took a course in Eastman's Business 
College, Poughkeepsie, New York, from 
which institution he was graduated with 
high honors. On his return home he 
secured employment as a bookkeeper from a local firm. In October, 1864, 
he began the stud}' of law, and while fitting himself for the legal profession 
also taught school. On August 26, 1866, he was admitted to the bar of 
Lycoming County. He soon afterward went to Iowa but remained in that 
State only a short time. Returning to his home he entered into partner- 
ship with his father in the practice of law in February, 1867, and continued 
in it until the death of his father, December 1 , 1878. In 1869, when not twenty- 
five years old, he was elected City Solicitor of Williamsport. He was one 
of the originators of the Lycoming Law Association and was its secretary for 
many years. In 1882 he was a candidate for Congress in the Sixteenth 
District, but after a spirited contest withdrew in favor of W. W. Brown, of 
McKean County, who was elected. On August 18, 1886, after a protracted 
deadlock, Mr. McCormick was nominated for Congress in his district. Although 
the nomination was made only ten days before the election he received a majoriy 
of about 5,000 and carried the strong Demociatic county of Lycoming by 847 . 
He served on many important committees in the Fiftieth Congress and on 
May 5, 1888, made a strong speech against the proposed free importation of 
lumber. In the same year he was re-elected. In the Fifty-first Congress he 
was chairman of the Committee on Railways and a member of the Judiciary 
Committee. In 1873 Mr. McCormick helped to organize the Lycoming 
National Bank, of which he was a director fourteen years. In April, 1887, 
he severed his connection with the institution, and with others organized the 
banking house of Cochran, Payne & McCormick. He has been, however, in 
the constant and active practice of the law from the time of his admission to 
the bar. In February, 1892, he was elected president of the Williamsport 
and North Branch Railroad Company, retiring on January 15, 1895, when he 
was appointed Attorney General. Mr. McCormick was married October 21, 
[875, to Ida, daughter of John W. Hays, of Erie, and has two children, 
Ellen and John. 



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XI 




THOS. J. STEWART, Adjutant Gen- 
eral of Pennsylvania, was born Sep 
tember n, 1848. He was attending the 
common schools of Norristown, when, at 
the age of" sixteen years, he enlisted in 
Company C, One Hundred and Thirty- 
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and par- 
ticipated in the assault on Petersburg, 
April 2, 1865, and in the battle of Sailor's 
Creek. April 6, [865, and was mustered 
out of service June 23, 1865. After his 
discharge from the service Mr. Stewart 
entered the Quaker City Business Col- 
lege, from which he graduated with 
special honor. He afterward engaged in 
the manufacture and sale of window 
glass, in which business he continued 
until 1S83. He was always actively 
identified with the various organizations of the day and became an especial 
favorite with the Grand Army of the Republic, his abilities as a speaker 
making him a welcome visitor at camp-fires and entertainments. No man 
is better or more favorably known in the organization in Pennsylvania. He 
served as Commander of Post Xo. 11 in 1879, was Assistant Inspector Gen- 
eral in 1 SSo, appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the Department of 
Pennsylvania in 1882, serving continuously until 1889, when he was chosen 
Commander of the Department of Pennsylvania. He entered the military 
service of the State in t868, and advanced through the various grades from 
First Sergeant of the Norris City Rifles (now Company F, Sixth Regiment 1, 
to Second Lieutenant and thence to First Lieutenant. He was appointed 
Adjutant of the Sixteenth Regiment in 1X77 (this regiment in the re-organi- 
zation became the Sixth) and appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the 
First Brigade by General Robert P. Dechert in 1890 and Adjutant General of 
Pennsylvania January 15, 1895. He was a delegate to the Republican State 
Convention in 1883, a member of the Legislature, representing Montgomery 
County in 1885 and 1886, and introduced the bill known as the " Soldier's 
Burial Bill" and was instrumental in securing its passage. He also aided in 
securing the establishment of the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors' Home 
at Erie and introduced a bill increasing the scope of the Soldiers Orphans' 
Industrial School. In 1886 Mr. Stewart was nominated for Secretary of In- 
ternal Affairs and elected by a large majority. He was unanimously re- 
nominated in 1890 and elected by a majority of nearly 28,000. His admin- 
istration of the Department of Internal Affairs was most successful, and his 
worth as a public officer is evidenced by the fact that while serving as Secre- 
tary of Internal Affairs he was appointed Adjutant General of Pennsylvania 
under the administration of Governor Daniel H. Hastings. Mr. Stewart is 
also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Soldiers and 
Sailors' Home at Erie, and of the Pennsylvania Commission in charge ot 
the Soldiers Orphans' Schools. 



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AMES H. LAMBERT, Insurance 
Commissioner of Pennsylvania, was 
born at Syracuse, New York, forty-eight 
years ago. He went with his parents to 
Wisconsin a few years later, and at twelve 
years of age began life by selling news- 
papers on the streets. Soon thereafter he 
was compelled to rely on himself for a liv- 
ing, became apprentice in a country print- 
ing office and went through all the various 
degrees, graduating finally to a reporter's 
desk on a Milwaukee daily newspaper. 
He came to Pennsylvania in 1874 as edi- 
tor and one of the owners of the Williams- 
port Gazette and Bulletin, a Republican 
daily paper. Shortly after the Philadel- 
phia Times was started he became one of 
its editors. He was soon promoted to the 
managing editorship of the paper, in which position he remained until 1886, 
when he accepted a place as political and State editorial writer on the Phila- 
delphia Press, with which paper he has continued relations since. He was a 
member of the Governor's Staff during the administration of Governor Beaver 
and was appointed Insurance Commissioner of the State January 15, 1895, by 
Governor Hastings. 




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,KNJAMIN F. GILKESON, Com- 
missioner of Banking of Pennsyl- 
vania, was born in Bristol, Bucks County, 
Pa., August 23, 1842. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar of Bucks County on 
February 2, 1864, and lias practiced at 
Bristol ever since. In 1889 he formed ;i 
partnership with William S. Wright, Esq., 
which has been continued under the firm 
name of Gilkeson & Wright. During the 
War of the Rebellion he was a member of 
Company I, Seventeenth Regiment, Penn- 
J^ sylvania Militia, of 1862, under command 

of Colonel James Gilkeson. On June 1 1 , 
1S87, he was appointed by Governor 
Beaver one of the trustees of the State 
Hospital for the Insane for the Southeast- 
ern District of Pennsylvania at Norristown 
and served until he resigned in 1889. Mr. Gilkeson was a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888 from the Seventh Dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania when General Harrison was nominated for Presi- 
dent of the United States, and he has often represented Bucks Comity 
as a delegate in the State Convention. He was appointed by President Har- 
rison Second Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States on May 23, 
1889, and served until June, 1893, when he resigned, having previously 
tendered his resignation at the beginning of President Cleveland's adminis- 
tration. In August, 1S93, he was elected chairman of the Republican State 
Committee and conducted the November campaign of that year, which resulted 
in the election of Colonel Jackson as State Treasurer and Judge Fell as a 
member of the Supreme Court, and also the special election of January, 1894, 
when Mr. Grow was elected Congressman -at- Large. He was re-elected State 
chairman in May, 1894, an d conducted the campaign which culminated in 
the election of General Hastings and the entire Republican ticket by the 
largest majority ever given in the State. Since Mr. Gilkeson 's advent to the 
chairmanship, including three campaigns, the Republican majority in Pennsyl- 
vania has steadily increased. In February, 1895, he was appointed Commis- 
sioner of Banking by Governor Hastings, w T hich position he now holds. In 
1874 Mr. Gilkeson was married to Miss Helen E. Pike, daughter of the late 
Samuel Pike, of Bristol, by whom he has three children, Helen, Franklin and 
Ethel. 



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THOMAS J. EDGE, Secretary of the 
Department of Agriculture of Penn- 
sylvania, was born at Midway, Chester 
County, Pa., August 13, 183S, and re- 
ceived his education at family schools, at 
West Town Boarding School, Chester 
County, and at Friends' Select School in 
Philadelphia. Early in life he developed 
a strong liking for agricultural pursuits 
and spent much of his time on the farm. 
In 1S57 he, with his father's family, 
moved to a farm in New Garden Town- 
ship, Chester County, which Mr. Edge 
owns, and on which he continued to 
reside until called into active public life 
by his election as Secretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture. At the age of 
sixteen years he became one of the paid 
correspondents of the Germantown Telegraph and Country Gentleman and 
afterward became agricultural editor of the Philadelphia Age and Philadel- 
phia Times and associate editor of the Journal of the Farm and other agricul- 
tural publications. When the Eastern Experimental Farm was located at 
West Grove, Chester County, he was unanimously elected by the Chester 
County Agricultural Society as one of a committee of three to manage it and 
continued in this position until it was resigned for more profitable work. 
When the act to create the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture became 
a law, he was unanimously elected to represent the Chester County 
Agricultural Society on the Board and was unanimously re-elected to the same 
position for sixteen years, when, the Legislature having made him ex-officio 
a member of the Board, he resigned the place. At the first meeting of the 
Board of Agriculture, in February, 1877, he was unanimously elected 
Secretary of the Board and was unanimously re-elected to the same position 
for eighteen years without a competitor. When the bill to create the State 
Department of Agriculture became a law on March 13, 1895, in view of the 
intelligent and faithful manner in which Mr. Edge had performed the duties 
of Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and the thorough knowledge 
he possessed of all matters relating to agriculture, Governor Hastings at once 
appoiuted him Secretary of the new Department and commissioned him for 
four years. Under the law which formed this Department the State Dairy 
and Food Commissioner, Forestry Commissioner, Economic Zoologist and 
State Veterinary Surgeon will be under its control. 



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SAMUEL M. JACKSON, State Treas- 
vj urer of Pennsylvania, was born on a 
farm near Apollo, Armstrong County, 
Pa., September 24, [833. At the age of 
sixteen he entered the Jacksonville Acad- 
emy, at Jacksonville, Indiana County, 
but was compelled to leave before com- 
pleting the course by the death of his 
father. He early took an active interest 
in military affairs and at thirteen enrolled 
as a drummer boy in a company of the 
State Militia, becoming, after various 
promotions, Captain of the company. At 
the breaking out of the Civil War he 
recruited Company G (Apollo Independ- 
ent Blues), of the Eleventh Pennsylvania 
Reserves, and was commissioned its Cap- 
tain. On July 2, 1 86 1, he was made 
Major of his regiment; on October 28 promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and 
on April 10, 1862, commissioned Colonel. Colonel Jackson and his regi- 
ment participated in the battles of Gaines Mill, Second Bull Run, South 
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania 
Court House and Bethesda Church. At Spottsylvania he commanded his 
brigade and for gallant conduct was breveted Brigadier General. After three 
years' active service he was mustered out and returned to his home. For a 
time he was engaged in the oil business in Venango County, but returned in 
1869 to Armstrong County. The same year he was elected to the House of 
Representatives and was re-elected the following year. In 1 874 he was elected 
to the Senate from the Forty-first Senatorial District, composed of the coun- 
ties of Armstrong and Butler, serving the sessions of 1875 and 1876. He 
was cashier of the Apollo Savings Bank from its organization in 1871 until 
1882, when President Arthur appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue 
for the Twenty-third District, serving in this capacity from July 1, 1882, 
until July 1, 1885. In September of the same year he was elected president 
of the Apollo Savings Bank, which position he still fills. He is a member 
of Whitworth Post, Xo. 89, Grand Army of the Republic, of Apollo ; 
Encampment No. 1, Union Veteran Legion, Pittsburg, and the Pennsylvania 
Commandery of the Loyal Legion. His well known integrity, as exhibited 
in many responsible positions he held, the ability with which he filled them 
all and his ardent devotion to the principles of his party led the Republicans 
to nominate Colonel Jackson for State Treasurer in 1893, which choice 
was ratified in November of that year by the then phenomenal plurality of 
135,146. 



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AMOS H. MYLIN, Auditor General 
of Pennsylvania, was born in West 
Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, 
Sept. 29, 1837. He is descended from 
one of those Mennonite families who 
nearly three hundred years ago emigrated 
from Canton Schaffhausen, in Switzer- 
land, to the new world, seeking religious 
liberty denied them in the old world. Mr. 
Mylin, through his own unaided efforts, 
laid the foundation of a liberal education 
in the public schools of Lancaster 
County and Charlotteville, N. Y., and 
completed his studies at Phillips Acad- 
emy, in Andover, Mass. He left that 
institution with a thorough knowledge of 
the classics and mastery of the German 
language but was unable, on account of 
illness, to complete a full collegiate course for which he had been preparing 
himself. Failing health compelled him to return to Lancaster County, 
where he devoted himself to farmer's work until 1861, when he began to 
read law with A. Herr Smith, of Lancaster, who was afterward elected to 
Congress from the county several terms. His studies closed in 1862 by his- 
enlistment as a private in the Fiftieth Regiment of Pennsylvania Emergency 
Men, but he resumed them on his return at the University Law School in 
Philadelphia, graduating in 1864, and practiced his profession in Lancaster 
for four years. Office work did not agree with him, and his health again 
broke down, and he abandoned the law and went back to the old homestead, 
where he has since lived and tilled the farm. Always active in Republican 
politics, in 1872 his neighbors insisted that he run for the lower House of 
the Legislature. He was nominated and elected without leaving his farm 
for one day's canvassing — an auspicious beginning to a legislative career 
that lasted exactly twenty years. At the expiration of his third term he 
was nominated for the State Senate, and continuously represented Lancaster 
County in that body from 1876 to 1892. He served on the important com- 
mittees of both Houses, was twice chairman of the Senate Appropriations 
Committee and for several sessions chairman of the Committee on Education. 
He was President pro tern, of the Senate during the long special session of 
1883 and the regular session of 1885. In 1891 Senator Mylin was a candidate 
for the nomination for Auditor General. He had over sixty votes in the 
State Convention, but General David M'M. Gregg was chosen. Mr. Mylin 
was disappointed but did not sulk in his tent, performing valiant service 
in the campaign which culminated in a big Republican victory. 



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AMES W. LATTA, Secretary of In- 
ternal Affairs of Pennsylvania, was 
born in Philadelphia, April 19, [839. 
He read law with his fathei and Judge 
Pierce and was admitted to the bar in 1 S60. 
Five days after Sumpter was fired on, the 
anniversary of his twenty -second birth- 
day, he enlisted as a private in Company 
D, First Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. 
He served in this until it was merged in 
the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regi- 
ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and in 
August, 1S62, went out as First Lieuten- 
ant of Company E. The regiment was 
attached to the Army of the Potomac, and 
General Latta was in all that army's bat- 
tles until the fall of Petersburg in March, 
1 S65 . At Rappahannock Station his horse 
was killed under him. In April, 1864, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant 
General of Volunteers, assigned to the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixth 
Corps, and afterwards transferred to the Fourth Division of the Cavalry 
of Sherman's Army. It was this corps that made the raid from 
Chickasaw Bluffs, Ala., to Macon, Ga., capturing Jefferson Davis. 
The division in which General Latta served captured Alexander H. 
Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and Howell Cobb, who had 
been Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury. At the close of the war General 
Latta was mustered out as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant 
General, after having served in every department of the United States Army 
from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains except the Department of Texas. 
On returning to Philadelphia he resumed the practice of law, but soon enlisted 
in the First Regiment, National Guard, the organization in which his army 
career began in 1861, and successively became Major, Lieutenant Colonel and 
Colonel. In 1873 Governor Hartranft appointed him Adjutant General of 
Pennsylvania, a position which he filled ten years. General Latta is Past 
Department Commander of Pennsylvania and a member of the Loyal Legion 
and Union League. He was Chief of Staff to Major General Hancock when 
the battle flags were formally returned to the State at Independence Hall in 
the summer of 1866, and to General Phil. H. Sheridan during the Constitu- 
tional Centennial ceremonies in November of 1887. General Latta is a fine 
orator and has delivered orations at the dedication of monuments to several 
distinguished generals. He is also an effective political stumper. When 
elected Secretary of Internal Affairs he was serving his second term as clerk of 
the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia. General Latta is a scion of one of the 
oldest Presbyterian families in the country. His great-grandfather, Rev. 
James Latta, was the sixth moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly 
of the United States, and his four sons, one General Latta's grandfather, were 
all prominent Presbyterian divines. The General is married and has a family 
of two sons and a daughter. 



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JATHAN C. SCHAEFFKR, Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction of 
Pennsylvania, was born in Maxatawny 
Township, Berks County, Pa., February 
3, [849. He received his preparatory 
education at the Kut/.town State Normal 
School, of which he was Principal for 
many years. He was graduated from 
Franklin and Marshall College in t867, 
then studied theology at Mercersburg 
and was ordained to the ministry. He 
next pursued a course of lectures at the 
Universities of Berlin, Tubingen and 
Feipsic. On his return to this country 
he was elected a professor in his Alma 
Mater, Franklin and Marshall College. 
This position he resigned in order to 
become Principal of the Keystone State Normal School, which was exceed- 
ingly prosperous under his administration of sixteen years. He has served 
as president of the Pennsylvania Teachers' Association, secretary of the 
National Council of Education and as a member of the Pennsylvania Com- 
mission on Industrial Education. Governor Pattison having thoroughly 
informed himself of the qualification of Professor Schaeffer for State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction selected him for the position, his commission 
dating June 1, 1893, and covering a period of four years. The wisdom of 
his appointment has been illustrated in the able manner in which he has 
performed the duties of his office. His administration of the department has 
not only been successful but popular. When appointed many distinguished 
educators of the State complimented Governor Pattison for the good sense 
he had exhibited in placing him at the head of the School Department, among 
them his predecessor, Rev. D. J. Waller, Jr. Superintendent Luckey, of 
Pittsburg ; Professor Phillips, Principal of the West Chester Normal School ; 
Dr. E. O. Lyte, Principal of the Millersville State Normal School; Rev. Dr. 
Thomas G. Apple, Professor of Church History and Exegesis in the Theo- 
logical Seminary of the German Reformed Church ; Dr. Edward Brooks, 
Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia ; Rev. Dr. John S. Stahr, 
President of Franklin and Marshall College, and others contributed articles 
to the Pennsylvania School Journal speaking in the highest terms of the 
appointment of Professor Schaeffer as Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
Since his induction into office he has been untiring in his efforts to promote 
school interests in the State and during the session of the Legislature in 1895 
exhibited active interest in bills drafted to advance the cause of education. 



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'JJ LLI AM II ENRY EGLE, State 
Librarian, was born in Harrisburg, 
Pa., and educated in the public schools 
of his native city, at Partridge's Military 
Institute, and in the office of the Penn- 
sylvania Telegraph. In [857 he entered 
the Medical Department of the University 
of Pennsylvania, from which he gradu- 
ated in 1859. In [862, at the request of 
the Governor and Adjutan General of 
Pennsylvania, he went to Washington, 
I). C, to assist in the care of the 
wounded, and in September following 
entered the service as an Assistant Sur- 
geon of the Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers. In 1863 he was Surgeon of 
the Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volun- 
teer Militia and in 1864 was appointed 
by the President Surgeon of Volunteers, remaining in active service until 
December, 1865. For twenty years he was annually elected Physician to 
the Dauphin County Prison. He was also the U. S. Medical Examiner for 
Pensions for four years. In 1 876 he published a ' ' History of Pennsylvania, ' ' 
the second edition of which was issued in 1883. Principally among his other 
historical publications are : ' ' History of the County of Dauphin ; " " History 
of the County of Lebanon ;" " Centennial of County of Dauphin and City of 
Harrisburg;" "Pennsylvania Genealogies, chiefly Scotch-Irish and Ger- 
man;" "Historical Register," two volumes; "Notes and Queries" — 
Historical and Genealogical, relating to interior Pennsylvania, six volumes. 
He was co-editor of Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volumes I to 
XII, editor of the same series volumes XIII to XIX, and also of Third 
Series. In 1887 he was appointed State Librarian, and holds that position 
at the present time. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was the first President 
of the Pennsylvania-German Society ; is a member of the Societies of Colonial 
Wars, Sons of the Revolution, War of 1812, and of the American Historical 
Association. Since 1870 he has been a Surgeon in the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania and is an active member of the "Association of Military 
Surgeons of the United States." 



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TAMES CAMPBELL, Factory In- 
| spector of Pennsylvania, was born at 
Albany, a small glass town, in Jeffer- 
son Township, Fayette County, Septem- 
ber 1 1 , 1846. He started out to acquire 
an education by attending the common 
schools in his neighborhood and later 
took advantages of opportunities offered 
in Pittsburg night schools to reinforce 
his country schooling. He removed to 
that city about seventeen years ago and 
followed the business of glass blowing 
until appointed to the position of State 
Factory Inspector by Governor Hastings 
in January, 1S95. Having worked hard 
all his life and taken great interest 
in the promotion of the good of workers 
in glass he is very popular with his 
co-laborers and has been honored with several positions of responsibility. 
Between the years 1882 and 1885 he was a member of the General Executive 
Board of the Knights of Labors. He was president of the Window Glass 
Workers' Assembly, No. 300, Knights of Labor, of the United States, for 
ever four years, and for three years was also president of the Universal 
Federation of the Window Glass Workers of the World, embracing 
America, England, Belgium, France and Italy. For awhile both of these 
positions were held at the same time by Mr. Campbell. While occupying 
the latter he presided at conventions to advance the interests of the window- 
glass makers at Charleroi, Belgium, and St. Helens, England. He has 
never filled any political position, except the one to which he was recently 
appointed. As Factory Inspector he is the successor of Robert Watchorn, who 
filled the place during Governor Pattison's administration. He has the 
appointment of twenty deputies, an act passed by the Legislature of 1895 
having added eight to the number previously authorized to be selected. 





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HTHOMAS ROBINSON, Superintend- 
1 ent of Public Printing and Binding 

of Pennsylvania, was born in Armagh 
County. Ireland, July 4, 1825. He bears 
the name of his father, who, with his 
family, came to this country in 1832. 
They located in Middlesex Township 
(now Penn), Butler County, in the spring 
of 1836. Mr. Robinson received a limited 
school and academic education. On 
June 20, 1854, he was married to Miss 
Ann E. DeWolf, daughter of Dr. Eli 
DeWolf, of Centerville. In 1855 he was 
admitted to practice at the bar of Butler 
County. In i860 he was elected to 
the Pennsylvania Legislature, and in 
1876 was the candidate of his party 
in Butler County for the State Senate 
but failed to receive the district nomination. Mr. Robinson for many years, 
and until recently, was editor and proprietor of the Butler Eagle and only 
ceased his duties as such about thirteen years ago, when he passed the estab- 
lishment to his son, Eli D. Robinson, after having established it on a basis 
of confidence with the people generally as a true and faithful exponent of 
Republican principles. He had previously owned and edited the Butler 
Citi-cn. A leading trait of Mr. Robinson's character is strong and unswerv- 
ing fidelity to his friends. He has always been an ardent Republican, and 
as a journalist steadily sustained with zeal and ability the principles of the 
party and its organization. During the late Civil War his paper supported 
the cause ot the Union with marked ability and always had words of cheer 
and comfort for the soldier in the field. As a delegate to the National Con- 
vention of 1880 he voted for James G. Blaine, in obedience to what he 
believed to be the sentiment of his constituents as well as in harmony with 
his own opinion, and when that distinguished statesman could not be nom- 
inated he voted for the late lamented Garfield. As an attorney Mr. Robin- 
son's career has not been as extensive as it otherwise would have been owing 
to the duties devolving upon him as editor, but in the several courts of the 
countv, as well as in the Supreme Court, it has been characterized by more 
than ordinary success. Mr. Robinson was one of the delegates from Butler 
Countv to the first Republican Convention that met in this State, in Pitts- 
burg, February 22, 185s. He has filled many positions of responsibility in 
the party and was chairman of the Butler County Committee during the two 
memorable campaigns of 1S63 and 1864. From 1881 to 18S4 he filled the 
office of solicitor of Butler County. Governor Hastings appointed him to 
his present place in April, 1S95, to serve for two years. 



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T C. DELANEY, Superintendent of 
I . Public Buildings and Grounds, was 
born in Ireland, April 22, 184S, and 
came to America when only five years old. 
He was put to work picking slate at the 
mines near Scranton when eight years old. 
At ten years of age he drove mules on 
the canal from Honesdale to Ronndont 
and at twelve ground bark in a tannery. 
When nearly fourteen he ran away and 
entered the Union Army and served three 
years and seven months. He was the 
youngest musket bearer and company 
commander in the Union Army. He was 
taken prisoner at Bull Run, Gettysburg 
and Yellow Tavern, but escaped each 
time within a few hours after having been 
captured. He won the Congressional 
medal for "conspicuous gallantry" at the battle of Dobney's Mill, Virginia, 
before reaching his seventeenth year. He was mustered out of service at the 
close of the war, returned to his home, and through the kindness of a devoted 
friend was enabled to attend the Kingston Academy for one term, and this 
constituted all the schooling he ever received. In view of his limited school 
experience the Captain is an enthusiastic advocate of compulsory education. 
He went to work in 1S66 with the Lehigh Valley Engineer Corps, remaining 
in that sendee until the road was completed. In 1S67 he was appointed by 
President Johnson a Second Lieutenant in the Thirty-second U. S. Infantry 
for his distinguished services in the war, but resigned soon after because of 
the earnest pleading of his widowed mother. He early embarked in politics 
and in 1873 was appointed Messenger in the Executive Department by Gov- 
ernor Hartranft and served in that capacity for six years, when he became 
Senate Librarian, in which position he served eleven years, when he resigned 
to accept the office of Receiver of Public Money at Oklahoma. He remained 
in that place until Mr. Cleveland's second inauguration, when he resigned to 
return to Pennsylvania. Immediately on his arrival in the State he espoused 
the cause of General Hastings, and to his activity and success for his 
big friend is due his present position of Superintendent of Public Build- 
ings and Grounds. Captain Delaney has a delightful little family, consisting 
of his wife and three children, two boys and one girl, and of these four the 
Captain is the proudest of anything and everything else in his life. 






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M. CLARK, Chief of the Bureau of 
. Industrial Statistics of Pennsylvania, 
was born on the 30th of April, 1838, 
in Mercer County, Pa. He was educated 
for a civil engineer, but early in life- 
abandoned the idea of following that pro- 
fession and entered the mercantile busi- 
ness. In August, 1S62, during the 
formation of the One Hundred and 
Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennnsylvania 
Volunteers, which was afterward com- 
manded by Colonel Matthew Stanley 
Quay, he enlisted and was mustered into 
the service as First Lieutenant of Com- 
pany G. In December, 1862, just before 
the battle of Fredericksburg, he was 
promoted to the captaincy of his com- 
pany and commanded that organization 
in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was mustered out 
of the service in May, 1863, at the expiration of the term of enlistment of his 
regiment. For many years after the war he was closely identified with manu- 
facturing and mining interests. In 1887 he was appointed by Hon. Thomas 
J. Stewart to a clerkship in the Department of Internal Affairs, and was soon 
thereafter assigned to duty in the Bureau of Industrial Statistics. In April, 
1889, he resigned the position to accept the appointment of Postmaster in 
the city of New Castle, which was tendered him by President Harrison, 
March 26, 1889. He was retired from this position by President Cleveland, 
May 1, 1893, and in July of the same year was re-appointed as Collector of 
Statistics in the Department of Internal Affairs, which position he held until 
the time of his appointment by General James W. Latta as Chief of the 
Bureau of Industrial Statistics. During the gubernatorial contest of 1894, 
when General Hastings was elected Governor, Captain Clark was chairman 
of the Lawrence County Republican Committee, the Republicans carrying 
the county by the largest majority on record. 






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EWIS EUGENE BEITEER, Private 
Secretary to Governor Hastings, was 
born in the Ninth Ward of Philadelphia, 
October 4, 1863, his father, being Daniel 
B. Beitler, for years one of the political 
leaders in that city, but now deceased. 
He was there educated in the public 
schools and graduated from the Senior 
Class of the Northwest Boys' Grammar 
School, delivering his class oration at 
the commencement exercises of the gram- 
mar schools at the Academy of Music. 
He subsequently took a course in a busi- 
ness college and another in the Franklin 
Institute, graduating in the mechanical 
drawing course. He also attended the 
Spring Garden Institute, taking a par- 
tial course in its mechanical trade school, 
and followed this with a course in stenography. He spent six mouths 
in his brother's law office in Philadelphia and three years in commercial and 
banking business. When Hon. Edwin H. Fitler was elected the first Bullitt 
Bill Mayor of Philadelphia Mr. Beitler was appointed his secretary and 
served during his entire term of four years. He had given such great satis- 
faction in the varied duties of that position that when Mayor Stuart suc- 
ceeded Mayor Fitler he retained his services. He had, meanwhile, entered 
as student-at-law at the Philadelphia Bar with his brother and in the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania Law School. He remained with Mayor Stuart until- 
January, 1895, when he resigned to accept the position of Private Secretary 
to Governor Hastings. His experience under the administrations of Mayors 
Fitler and Stuart, added to a thorough schooling and suave manners, gave 
him all the qualifications necessary for the proper performance of the duties 
of his present position. In June, 1894, Mr. Beitler was united in marriage 
with Miss Clementina Worrilow Beck, daughter of the Rev. William Perkins 
Beck, deceased. Mr. Beitler was most actively interested in the great cam- 
paign which resulted in the triumphant election of his present chief. Im- 
mediately after its close he joined General Hastings in Bellefonte, remaining 
there until his departure for the inaugural ceremonies at Harrisburg, and 
since that time he has taken up his residence in that city, temporarily, dur- 
ing his term of office. He is one of the most popular private secretaries 
that has ever graced the Executive Chamber, and has shown great capacity 
and ability for the work incident to his position. 



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TAMES ELDER BARNETT, Deputy 
J Secretary of the Commonwealth, was 
born at Elders' Ridge, Indiana County, 
Pa., and was educated at Elders' Ridge 
Academy and Washington and Jefferson 
College, graduating from the latter in 1 882. 
After serving as clerk to the Commission- 
ers of Washington County, and engaging 
to some extent in the oil business, he went 
to Columbia Law School and was admitted 
to the Washington County bar in [890, 
since which time he has practiced his pro- 
fession. He has been connected with the 
National Guard since 1884, serving suc- 
cessively as private, corporal, sergeant, 
first lieutenant, captain and major, and 
now commands the First Battalion of the 
Tenth Infantry under Col. A. L. Hawk- 
ins. He served with his command in the late riots, was one of the counsel 
for defendants in the lams' case and was a member of the board appointed 
by the late Gen. Greenland to select a knapsack and other articles of equip- 
ment for the Guard. Maj. Barnett is an earnest Republican and takes an 
active interest in party matters. He has acted as secretary of the Washing- 
ton County Committee and is a member of the Republican Executive Com- 
mittee of the county. In the fall of 1893 he was selected to meet a represen- 
tative from Beaver County in order to adjust the respective claims of Wash- 
ington and Beaver Counties to priority in the ensuing Republican nomination 
ofa candidate for the State Senate from the Senatorial District composed of 
those counties. 





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OHN P. ELKIN, Deputy Attorney 
General of Pennsylvania, was born 
in West Mahoning Township, Indiana 
County, July n, i860, and belongs to 
the sturdy Scotch -Irish race. His father 
was Francis Elkin and his mother Eliza- 
beth (Pratt) Elkin. In 1S74 his father, 
with others, founded at Wellsville, Ohio, 
the American Tin Plate Company, which 
was the first tin plate mill erected in this 
country, in which mill the subject of this 
sketch worked for several years in his 
bovhood. He received his early educa- 
tion in the common schools at Smieks- 
burg, Indiana County, and subsequently 
graduated at the Indiana Normal School 
of Pennsylvania. At the age of fifteen 
years be began to teach in the common 
schools, in which capacity he continued for a number of years. In 1882 he 
entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan, and was gradu- 
ated with honor from that institution in 1884, being the orator of his class. 
He was afterward admitted to the bar of Indiana County and in its several 
courts has been diligent in the practice of his profession ever since. In 
1884, when but twenty-four years of age, he was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and in 18S6 was re-elected by an 
increased majority. In the session of 1887 he was chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Constitutional Reform, and had charge of the joint resolution 
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State to prohibit the 
manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and was a member of the sub- 
committee which drafted this legislation. He was a delegate in the conven- 
tion which nominated Judge Mitchell for the Supreme bench in 1887, was a 
delegate in the convention of 1890, and was permanent chairman of the 
Republican State Convention which nominated Gregg and Morrison in 1891. 
He has been president of the Indiana School Board during the past six 
years and has just been re-elected for another term of three years. He is a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indiana Normal School of Pennsyl- 
vania and has taken an active interest in advancing the cause of education 
during the course of his entire life. He has been instrumental in securing 
the development of the coal fields of Indiana County, he and several other 
gentlemen operating extensively in the Cush Creek coal region. He is 
president of the Farmers Bank of Indiana, which is one of the leading bank- 
ing institutions of the county. On June 17, 1S84, he was married to Adda 
P., daughter of John Prothero, and has two children, Helen and Laura. 



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BENJAMIN J. HAYWOOD. Cashier 
of the State Treasury, was born in 
Mercer County, April 12, [849. His 
education was received in the- common 
schools and at the Iron City Business 
College, Pittsburg. He embarked in 
mercantile pursuits and in 1873 became 
teller of Morrison's Bank, West Middle- 
sex, Pa., serving in that capacity until 
1878. He was Postmaster of West Mid- 
dlesex for a number of years, Message 
Clerk of the State Senate at the sessions 
of 1S85 and 1SS7, and in the latter year 
was elected Prothonotary of Mercer 
County for a term uf three years. In 
1 89 1 the Comptroller of the Currency 
appointed Mr. Haywood receiver of the 
First National Bank of Clearfield. His 
management of the affairs of this bank was such as to win him the highest 
approval, not only of those immediately interested, but of the Comptroller 
of the Currency and other United States Treasury officials with whom his 
duties brought him in contact. The creditors were paid in full, the stock- 
holders have received a dividend of thirty per cent., and there is a prospect 
of further dividends. In May, 1894, he was appointed Cashier of the State 
Treasury, the responsible duties of which position he has discharged with 
faithfulness and acceptability. Mr. Haywood has always been a Republican, 
and has been an active worker since he has been old enough to vote. In the 
local politics of Mercer County he has been a most prominent figure for 
many years. He has represented his party in County, Congressional and 
State Conventions, and is widely and favorably know to Republicans 
throughout the entire State. For four years he was chairman of the Mercer 
Republican County Committee and showed himself an able organizer and 
tireless worker. Mr. Haywood has led an active and useful life. His early 
training in the banking business gave him a familiarity with that work that 
stood him in good service while acting as receiver of the Clearfield Bank 
and in his present position in the State Treasury. His active participation 
in local and State politics has given him a wide acquaintance, and his frank 
and genial disposition has made his acquaintances his friends. In 1893 Mr. 
Haywood was a candidate for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer 
and had a large and influential following. He withdrew before the conven- 
tion, leaving a clear field for Colonel S. M. Jackson, the present occupant 
of that office. Mr. Haywood is again a candidate for the nomination this 
year, and his success seems assured. 



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QAMUEL W. McCULXOCH/ Deputy 
O Insurance Commissioner of Pennsyl- 
vania, was born at McCulloeh's Mills, 
Juniata County, October 30, 1857. He 
is of Scotch-Irish descent, and his grand- 
father, who came from Ireland to this 
county, settled at the place of Mr. Mc- 
Culloeh's birth and established what are 
known as McCulloeh's mills, from which 
the town indicated derives its name. His 
early education was acquired in the pub- 
lic schools. This was supplemented by 
schooling received in the Airy View 
Academy at Port Royal, of which David 
Wilson was principal. Several years 
afterward he secured employment as 
clerk in the office of the Cambria Iron 
Works and remained in the employ of 
that corporation for a few years. On March 1, 1883, he was appointed by 
J. Montgomery Forster, then Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania, on 
the clerical force in that department established ten years before. He filled 
this clerkship until 1894, when he succeeded J. Woods Brown, Deputy 
Insurance Commissioner, who had resigned to accept another place. Mr. 
McCulloch has continued to occupy this position because of the marked fit- 
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ISAAC B. BROWN, Deputy Secretarj 
1 of Internal Affairs, was born in Elk 
County, February 20, 1848. He entered 
the Union Army as a private soldier in 
1864 at the age of sixteen years and 
served in the Third Division, Ninth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, until the 
close of war, when he devoted one year to 
study at Smethport Academy and three 
years at Alfred University, from which 
institution he was graduated with the 
class of 1869. After graduating he 
taught school at Ridgway, Elk County, 
and subsequently located at Corry, Erie 
County, where he commenced the study 
of law and was admitted to practice in 
1877. In 1878 he was nominated for 
Assembly by the Republicans in the 
Second District of Erie County, but was defeated by a combination of Demo- 
crats and Greeubackers. In 1 880 he was nominated and elected. He served 
six years in the Assembly of Pennsylvania, having been three times succes- 
sively chosen by the Republicans of his district. In 1886 he was a candidate 
against Hon. C. W. Mackey and Hon. E- F. Watson for the congressional 
nomination in the district composed of Erie, Venango and Warren Counties, 
but was defeated. In 1887 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of Internal 
Affairs by Hon. Thomas J. Stewart, then Secretary of Internal Affairs, and 
in 1 89 1 was re-appointed to the same position. In 1894 he was prominently 
mentioned for the nomination for Secretary of Internal Affairs but withdrew 
before the Republican State Convention was held. In January, 1895, he 
was appointed by Governor Hastings Secretary of Internal Affairs to fill the 
unexpired term of Hon. Thomas J. Stewart, who had resigned to accept the 
appointment of Adjutant General of Pennsylvania. During the session of 
18S5 he introduced and secured the passage of the bill for the establishment 
of the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors' Home, at Erie, Pa. He has 
been a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic since its 
organization, having served on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief and 
several times has been elected delegate to the National Encampment. He 
served thirteen years in the National Guard of Pennsylvania as Second 
Lieutenant and Captain of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Regiments, and 
Brigade Judge Advocate on the Staff of General James A. Beaver. He is 
now President of the Survivors' Association of the Third Division, Ninth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. He and his brothers, Hon. J. L. Brown, of 
Elk County, and Hon. W. W. Brown, of McKean County, were all soldiers 
in the Union Army and have all been members of the Pennsylvania House 
of Representatives. During the sessions of 1881 and 1883 he and his 
brother, Hon. J. L. Brown, were colleagues in the Pennsylvania Legislature 
while their brother, Hon. W. W. Brown, was a member of the National 
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HARRY HOUCK, Deputy Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, was 
born in Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pa., 
March 6, [836, and educated in public and 
private schools. He also studied Latin 
and Greek for two years under the private 
tutorship of Rev. Charles A. Wedekind, 
D. D. Subsequently the honorary degree 
of A. M. was conferred upon him by 
Franklin and Marshall College. In 1S59, 
when twenty -three years of age, he was 
appointed Superintendent of Lebanon 
County by Hon. H. C. Hickok, State 
Superintendent, and was elected to the 
same office in i860, 1863 and 1866. In 
1S67 Dr. J. P. Wickersham tendered him 
an important position in the State School 
Department of Public Instruction, which 
he accepted. In 1869 he was promoted to the office of Deputy State Super- 
intendent, which position he has filled up to this time through all adminis- 
trations. Mr. Houck was twice chairman of the Executive Committee of 
the State Teachers' Association, and in 1872 president at its annual meeting 
in Philadelphia, the largest in its history. Among teachers and school peo- 
ple no one is better and more favorably known. He has lectured in every 
town and city in the State, and in addition to this has conducted institutes 
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10HN Q. STEWART, Deputy Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction, was 
appointed to a clerkship in the De- 
partment of Public Instruction by State 
Superintendent Dr. J. P. Wickersham in 
December. 1879. He was retained in 
his position by Dr. E. E. Higbee, Mr. 
Wickersham's successor, and was ap- 
pointed by him to the office of Deputy 
Superintendent April 1, 1883, which 
position he has held during the succeed- 
ing administrations of Dr. D. J. Waller, 
Jr., and of Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, the 
present Superintendent. Mr. Stewart 
represented Lawrence County in the 
Legislature during the annual sessions of 
1875, 1876, 1877 and j 878 and was chair- 
man of the Committee on Education in the 
House of Representatives duri.ig the last two years of his term of office. He 
was engaged in teaching school prior to his election to the Legislature in 
1S74, and was subsequently president of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' 
Association. He was a member of Cooper's Battery, Battery B, First Penn- 
sylvania Light Artillery, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, and was- 
mustered out of service June 9, 1865. He is connected with the Grand Army 
of the Republic and has represented his post as a delegate to the State 
Department Encampment for several consecutive years. Mr. Stewart was 
born in Lawrence County September 23, 1844, in the township of Little 
Beaver, which was then a part of Beaver County, Pa. He was married in 
November, 1893. 





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JOHN W. MORRISON, of Allegheny 
County, Deputy Commissioner of 
Banking, was born in Philadelphia 
and educated in the public schools of 
that city. He was a merchant in Pitts- 
burg from 1866 until 1892 and enlisted 
as a private in the One Hundredth Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers in August, 1861. 
He was promoted to Sergeant, Major and 
later was made a commissioned officer 
and was honorably discharged after more 
than three years' service. He served in 
the National Guard of Pennsylvania as 
Quartermaster of the Fourteenth Regi- 
ment and Captain and Aid-de-camp on 
the staff of General James A. Beaver. 
He was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1880 and re-elected in 1882 ; 
was Journal Clerk of the House of Representatives at the sessions of 1885 
and 1889; Chief Clerk in 1889 and 1891. He was elected State Treasurer 
November, 1891, and appointed Deputy Commissioner of Banking April 
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Jl L S O N M. G E A R H ART, Chief 
Clerk in the State Department of 
Pennsylvania, was horn in Gearhart 
Township, Northumberland County, Jan- 
uary 23, [847. When a boy he alter- 
nated between the farm and the common 
schools. Later on he attended the Dan- 
ville Institute and Dickinson Seminary 
at Williamsport, graduating from the 
latter institution in 1865. Having com- 
pleted his education he taught for two 
years in the Second Ward Grammar 
School in Danville. Between 1X68 and 
1872 he was book-keeper and time-keeper 
tor the large iron manufacturing com- 
pany of Waterman 6c Beaver, at that time 
employing about 1,700 men. From 1872 
to 1875 he was a dealer in iron and wood 
working machinery. In the latter year he had the honor of being the first 
Republican chosen to county office in Montour, he having been elected Pro- 
thonotarv. He was re-elected by increased majorities in 1878, 1881 and 
1884, his fourth term expiring January, 1888. In June, 1887, he was 
appointed Chief Clerk in the State Department and served during the 
administration of Governor Beaver and during a portion of that of Governor 
Pattison. In November, 1891, he resigned, to take charge of the office of 
the World's Fair Commission of Pennsylvania, as Chief Clerk and Secretary 
of the Executive Committee, continuing in the position until the close of 
the work of the Commission in February, 1894. He has been Clerk of the 
Pennsylvania Board of Pardons since 1888. He was appointed Register of 
Wills and Recorder of Deeds of Montour County, November 18, 1890, to fill 
a vacancy caused by death. In 1894 he assisted in editing the Montour 
American, of Danville. He was for fifteen consecutive years a School Direc- 
tor of the First Ward of Danville, and for several years assisted in the exam- 
ination of the high school. He has filled every chair in the lodge, chapter, 
council and commandery of the order of Masons and for twenty-five years 
has been connected with the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church and 
Sunday-school as an officer. In 1863 Mr. Gearhart enlisted in the Union 
Army and was placed in the Provost Marshal's office at Washington, D. C. 
The same fall he resigned to resume his school studies. He twice declined 
nominations in his county for the Legislature. In December, 1894, he was 
tendered the Chief Clerkship of the State Department by General Frank 
Reeder, and accepted the position, which he is filling with ability and to the 
satisfaction of all who have business with this important department of the 
State Government. 



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GEORGE C. KELLY, Chief Clerk in 
the Adjutant General's Department, 
was born in Lewisburg, Union County, 
September 27, 1839. He received his 
education in the public schools, the Lewis- 
burg Academy and what is now known as 
Bucknell University , after which he learned 
the trade of house painting. On June 5, 
1 86 1, he enlisted in Company D, Fifth 
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. He was 
wounded at Charles City Cross Roads, a 
ball entering his left shoulder, passing 
through the lung and lodging in the right 
side of the body, where it still remains. 
He was then transferred to the Veteran 
Reserve Corps. Before his wound had 
time to heal he participated in the battle 
of Fredericksburg and was shot through 
the right thigh. He served out his term of enlistment and was mustered out 
of the service June 11, 1864, after having taken part in many engagements. 
He entered the war as a private and was discharged as a first sergeant. His 
military experience did him a good turn when he aspired to a civil position 
soon after his retirement from the army, and on the first day of July, 1864, a 
short time after he had been mustered out, he was appointed a clerk in the 
Adjutant General's Department, serving in that capacity for three years, 
when he was promoted to the chief clerkship, succeeding Daniel Washabaugh, 
who had filled that position during the administration of Governor Curtin. 
Since 1 867 he has continued as Chief Clerk of the Department without inter- 
ruption. During that time the Democrats elected their candidate for Gover- 
nor twice, but Captain Kelly was permitted to hold on without regard to the 
fact that he was an ardent Republican. He served as clerk under Governor 
Curtin, and as Chief Clerk under the administrations of Governors Geary, 
Hartranft, Hoyt and Beaver and the two administrations of Governor Patti- 
son, and is now filling the same position under Governor Hastings. The 
reason for his long retention in office is due to the fact that his services have 
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IOHN WOODS NESBIT. Superin- 
tendent of the State Arsenal, was born 
- in South Fayette Township, Alle- 
gheny County, Pa., May [2, [840. He 
is of Scotch-Irish descent, his grand- 
fathers, John Nesbit and Stephen Woods, 
having emigrated to this country about 
1790 from the north of Ireland. His 
father, James McConnell Nesbit, and 
mother, Ann Eliza Woods, settled on the 
old homestead farm in 1S39. John W. 
was raised on this farm and educated in 
the common schools. He worked on the 
farm until August 23, 1862, when he 
enlisted as a private in Company D, One 
Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, which regiment was assigned 
to the " Bucktail Brigade," First Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. He served in this brigade until the close of the 
war, participating in every engagement from the raid on Port Royal to the 
flank movement on Dobneys' Mills, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 
The Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, 
Hatchers' Run, and the Weldon railroad fight at the Yellow Tavern. He 
was mustered out as a Sergeant, June 24, 1865. x\t the close of the war he 
resumed farming, and has continued in that business, in connection with 
contracting and insurance, up to the present time. He was elected to the 
Assembly on the Republican ticket in 1880, re-elected in 1882, 1888, 1890 
and 1892, and was chairman of the Committee on Insurance during the 
sessions of 1891 and 1893. In 1891 he was appointed by the Speaker of the 
House a member of the Committee to investigate the management of the 
Soldiers' Orphans Schools of the State, and in January, 1893, was a member 
of the Board of Trustees of the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Erie, Pa. He 
entered the National Guard as Captain of Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. 
August 14, 1875, was promoted to Major, July 9, 1893, and served six 
weeks at Pittsburg and Scranton during the riots of 1877, four months at 
Johnstown, after the flood of 1889 (in charge of the military force stationed 
there), and two weeks at Homestead in July, 1892, the regiment being on 
duty there. He was appointed Superintendent of the State Arsenal, Feb- 
ruary 1, 1895. Mr. Nesbit is a member of the Presbyterian church at 
Oakdale, Allegheny County, Pa., is active in local enterprises, being secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Oakdale Farmers Insurance Company, member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Melrose Cemetery Company, of the Board of 
Directors of Oakdale Academy Association, secretary of the Oakdale Ceme- 
tery Company, president of the Armory Association, and a member of the 
Oakdale Insurance and Real Estate Agency, and resides in Oakdale 
Borough. 



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T.S 



AWREXCE EYRE, of Chester 



Township, Delaware Count}-, May 24, 
1862. He received his initial education in 
a private school in Coatesville, his parents 
having removed to that place when he 
was five years old. He subsequently at- 
tended the public schools in that town. 
In 1871 the family changed its residence 
to West Chester, where young Eyre at- 
tended the common schools, high school 
and normal school. He was employed 
for six years in a wholesale grocery store 
in Philadelphia, and for two years prose- 
cuted the stock brokerage business in 
West Chester. After the last venture he 
drifted into politics, in which he has figured 
prominently. He was secretary to Con- 
gressman Darlington during the sessions of 1887 and 1888. In 1889 he was 
clerk to the President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, Mr. Grady, of 
Philadelphia. In July, of the same year, he was appointed Collector of Sta- 
tistics in the Department of Internal Affairs. In 1893 he was elected chair- 
man of the Republican Committee of Chester County and in 1894 re-elected. 
He was appointed Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs in 1895 as a result of 
the appointment of Secretary Stewart as Adjutant General and the promotion 
of Deputy Secretary Brown to the head of the office. Mr. Eyre continued in 
the position until General Latta was qualified as Secretary of Internal Affairs. 






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JOHN A. GLENN, of the Auditor Gen- 
| eral's Department, was born August 
2, 1854, in Erie, Pa. He moved to 
Philadelphia in [864 and went into the 
law office of Hon. Samuel Gustine 
Thompson in 1868, and has been asso- 
ciated with him to the present time. 
When Col. A. Wilson Norris, who read 
law in the same office, became Auditor 
General, he was appointed Corporation 
Clerk and was re-appointed by Hon. 
1 nomas McCamant, his successor. He 
was one of the secretaries of the Repub- 
lican State Committee during the cam- 
paign of 1892. 




THE SENATE 

OF 

PENNSYLVANIA 



The Senate. 




pH.A 
Vj Se 



ARLES WESLEY THOMAS, 
, Senator from the Fourth Philadelphia 
District and President pro tempore of the 
^\ Senate, was born on June 6, t86o, in 

WL Philadelphia. His father, Benjamin 

'*03k- 4EL ' Thomas, a grocer, was a native of Ches- 

ter County, Pa., and of Welsh ancestry. 
The Senator's mother, of Scotch-Irish 
descent, was also born in Chester County. 
After attending the public schools of his 
native city the boy was employed in a 
grocery store, and subsequently was a 
clerk in the general office of the Pennsyl- 
vania railroad, on South Fourth street. 
He resigned that place to become a legis- 
lator, and is now in the real estate busi- 
ness. Mr. Thomas, who has ever been 
a staunch Republican, was a member of 
the House of Representatives in the sessions of 1885, 1887 and [889, resign- 
ing at the close of the latter session to accept the position of private secretary 
to the Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, Thomas V . Cooper. He resigned 
this secretaryship in order to take his seat as State Senator, to which he was 
elected in 1890, as the successor of John J. Macfarlane. Mr. Thomas 
received an overwhelming majority for this office, 18,461 votes having been 
cast for him, while his highly esteemed Democratic opponent, John S. Gold- 
back, received only 10,531 votes. Early in this legislative term many of 
Mr. Thomas' fellow Senators proposed that he should be the next President 
pro tern, of the Senate, and the newspapers of Philadelphia and its vicinity 
contained very favorable comments 011 the choice, which were copied in 
other journals. At the session of 1895 Mr. Thomas was a member of the 
Senate Committees on Finance, Railroads, Municipal Affairs, Education, 
Corporations and Legislative Apportionment. Mr. Thomas has been a 
leader in the movement for the abolition of the Public Building Commission 
of Philadelphia. His voice, representing that half of West Philadelphia 
above Market street, is among the most influential in the Republican organ- 
ization of his city. He served as assistant secretary of the Republican State 
Committee in 1887, and was secretary in charge during the Presidential 
campaign of 1SS8. In the State Conventions of 1SS8 and 1892 he was a del- 
egate. His sagacity, amiability, fidelity to friends, and tireless industry and 
energy made him, first, the trusted subordinate, and, finally, the ever 
welcome counsellor and fellow manager of the leaders of his party in city 
and State. Mr. Thomas was re-elected to the Senate in 1894 by 14,880 
plurality. In 1893 ^ e was elected President pro tempore and re-elected in 
1895. 



The Senate. 




GEORGE HANDY SMITH, who 
has acceptably represented the First 
District of the city of Philadelphia since 
1875, being the senior member in 
point of service, is a native of the 
Quaker City, having been born in the 
Eighth Ward on July 21, 1836. His 
ancestors were Scotch, and emigrated to 
America in 1632, settling in Maryland, 
where they were instrumental in estab- 
lishing, at Snow Hill, Worcester County, 
the first Presbyterian church erected on 
this continent. Senator Smith was edu- 
cated in the schools of his native city, 
graduating in the Senior class of the 
Locust Street Grammar School. He 
learned the arts and mysteries of jeweler 
and silversmith, and successfully followed 
that occupation until the people called him into their service in other 
departments of life. He early became identified with the Republican Party 
and has always been one of its sturdiest adherents and most efficient workers. 
After having creditably filled several positions under the municipal govern- 
ment of Philadelphia, he was, in 187 1, elected to the House of Representa- 
tives from the First District, and re-elected in 1872 and 1873. In 1885 he 
was honored with election to the Presidency pro tempore of the Senate, 
and re-elected in 1887. He was chairman of the Republican joint caucus 
that nominated J. Donald Cameron for United States Senator in 1879 and 
1891, and had the same honor in 1893, when M. S. Quay was nominated for 
a second term. Mr. Smith also placed Mr. Quay in nomination in the 
Senate. As chairman of the Inauguration Committee, he presided at the 
inaugurations of Governors Hartranft, Hoyt and Hastings and was a mem- 
ber of that committee on both occasions when Governor Pattison was 
inducted into office. Keeping a close watch on all legislations, he takes an 
active part in all important measures, and while never occupying the time 
of the Senate with useless discussions, expresses himself when occasion 
demands with clearness and force, and always with effect. In 1862 Mr. 
Smith enlisted in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, returning from the 
service as corporal. He is a member of the Hector Tyudale Post G. A. R., 
and of the Veteran Corps of the First Regiment National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania. A man of frank, out-spoken disposition and generous impulses, 
Senator Smith has a wide circle of warm friends, and, his friendship once 
given, he is unwavering in his adherence to those who deserve it. During 
an extended period of public service, he has shown that he possesses the 
qualities and the will to faithfully discharge every duty. Mr. Smith is 
now engaged in agricultural pursuits, and finds in the avocation of a farmer 
a pleasant recreation from the activities of public life. At the session of 
1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Corporations. 



Thi Senate. 




Iv the 



OOD BECKER, who represents 



born in Philadelphia July 20, 1853. He 
attended the public schools only and 
graduated from the senior class of the 
Park Avenue grammar school in Phila- 
delphia. He entered the real estate 
business in the Fifth Ward and was suc- 
cessful from the start. His geniality and 
business acumen won him many friends 
and brought to his office numerous and 
profitable clients, until to-day he has in 
his care 600 houses for rent. Senator 
Becker has always been a staunch Re- 
publican, and since he has reached man- 
hood he has always taken an active in- 
terest in the affairs of his party. The 
ward in which he resides was years ago 
Democratic, but of recent years has been found in the Republican column, 
and it is not too much to say that some of the credit for this result, if not a 
large share of it, is due to the efforts of Senator Becker. His popularity and 
political activity may be understood from the fact that he is the first Repub- 
lican ever elected to the Senate from his district, which is composed of five 
wards, each of which is Democratic except the Fifth. Despite the political 
complexion of his district he was elected Senator over ex-Representative 
James D. Lee, a very popular Democrat, by a plurality of 98 in 1S90 and in 
1894 was re-elected by a plurality of 4,300. This is the only political position 
Senator Becker ever held, but he has attended several conventions, the most 
important being the Republican State Convention of 1890, which nominated 
Delamater for Governor and the convention of 1894 which nominated Gen. 
Hastings for Governor. At the session of 1895 he was chairman of the 
Committee on Retrenchment and Reform. Senator Becker is a director of 
the Merchants' Title and Trust Company, a member of Washington Lodge, 
59, F. and A. M., Harmony Chapter, Philadelphia Commandery, Philadel- 
phia Consistory and one of the incorporators of the Ancient and Arabic 
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Lulu Temple. Mr. Becker has taken 
thirty -two decrees in Masonrv. 



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FRANCIS A. OSBOURN, who rep- 
resents the Third Senatorial District, 
was born March i, 1845, in Philadelphia. 
His ancestry was American for many 
generations. At the outbreak of the 
rebellion he joined Company I, Twentieth 
Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and was 
at once sent into active field service. He 
received his baptism of fire at the occu- 
pation of Fort Hatteras and the ap- 
proaches to Roanoke Island in 1861, and 
in March, 1 862 , was under the raking guns 
for two days at Newport News, Virginia, 
of the rebel ram Merrimac, and other 
vessels and witnessed the destruction of 
the Union frigates Cumberland and 
Congress, and the first great naval battle 
between iron ships of war, the Monitor 
and Merrimac. He participated in the capture of Norfolk and Portsmouth, 
Virginia, in May, 1862, and was then transferred with his regiment to the 
Army of the Potomac, joining it at the desperate battles of Fair Oaks and 
Seven Pines, within seven miles of Richmond, Va. In the attacks of Gen- 
erals Kearney and Hooker on the Confederate capital on June 25, 1862, and 
while charging the enemy's line he was so dangerously wounded in the left 
arm by a rifle ball that amputation at the shoulder joint was found to be 
immediately necessary. On his return to Philadelphia he recruited a com- 
pany. Re-entering the army, he went to Vorktown, Va., in October, 1863, 
where he joined in the hazardous expedition to support the famous cavalry 
raid of General Kilpatrick to release the Federal prisoners in Libby 
Prison. During the siege of Petersburg and Grant's movements in the 
assault and exploding of mines he was in the thickest of the fight and twice 
narrowly escaped with his life. On March 13, 1865, he was breveted 
a Captain of United States Volunteers by President Lincoln for gallant and 
meritorious service and commanded a company of the Sixteenth Regiment 
Veteran Reserve Corps until the close of the war. In 1867 he left the army 
and began the study of law in the office of Chas. E. Lex, Esq., and in 1869, 
he was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia. In 1876 he was elected to the 
House of Representatives, and during the term of 1877-78 he introduced the 
original municipal reform bill, which in an amended form became the new 
city charter of Philadelphia. After the expiration of his term he was 
appointed Assistant City Solicitor of Philadelphia by William Nelson West, 
which position he held with the approval of his superior for six years. In 
1884 he was elected to the Senate from the Third District and re-elected in 
1888 and 1892. At the session of 1895 Senator Osbourn was chairman of 
the Committee on Municipal Affairs and a member of Judiciary General, 
Judiciary Special, Military Affairs and Pensions and Gratuities Committees. 



The Smut, 




CHARLES A. PORTER, of the Fifth 
District of Philadelphia, was born May 
15, 1839, in that section of the city known 
half a century ago as North Mulberry 
Ward , on Cherry street, below Fifth . His 
parents were people of moderate circum- 
stances, and as a boy he received his edu- 
cation principally in the Zane Street Gram- 
mar School. On attaining manhood he 
took up the business of his father — that 
of contractor. He was always of a studi- 
ous disposition, and early in life evinced 
an interest in politics. He cast his first 
vote in 1 860 for Abraham Lincoln . When 
but twenty-three years of age he received 
his first political appointment, that of 
Supervisor of the Streets of the city of 
Philadelphia, and served in that position 
for four years under Mayors Henry and McMichael. In 1869 he was elected 
a member of the City Republican Campaign Committee from the Eighth 
Ward, served almost continuously for twenty-four years and won the confi- 
dence and respect of his party in his district. In 1872, 1873 and 1874 he was 
elected to the lower House of the Legislature from the Eighth and Ninth 
Wards. On May 15, 1875, Mr. Porter removed to the Twenty-eighth Ward 
and has since that time been recognized as the leader of the Republican forces 
in that section. In 1888 he was a Delegate to the Republican National Con- 
vention that nominated General Harrison for the Presidency of the United 
States. In r88g lie was unanimously elected as chairman of the Republican 
City Committee and has been chosen to the same position every subsequent 
election until 1 895 . He is an able manager and his conduct of political affairs 
has alwavs resulted in party harmony. In 1890 he was elected State Senator 
for the unexpired term of Hon. J. U. Reyburn. As a Senator, Mr. Porter 
was always at his post, and has introduced many measures of great import- 
ance affecting the interests of his native city. In 1892 Senator Porter was 
elected to the Senate for the full term. He has assisted many men to politi- 
cal positions and has always insisted upon giving the young element of the 
Republican Party an opportunity of showing what could be done. He is a 
liberal contributor to campaign funds and does not hesitate to assist, finan- 
cially, those who appeal to him. Unassuming in his methods and unosten- 
tatious in his dealings with men, he manages to make himself as popular with 
the division workers as with those who take part in political contests only 
when it suits their pleasure and convenience. Mr. Porter has followed the 
business of general contractor for the past thirty years. He has been suc- 
cessful in business and enjoys a comfortable fortune. He is at present a 
director of the Chestnut Street National Bank. 



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2 he Senate. 




BOIES PENROSE, representing the 
Sixth District of Philadelphia, was- 
born on November i, i860, at 1331 
Spruce street, where he still resides. He 
is the eldest son of R. A. F. Penrose, M. 
D. LX- D., a professor in the medical 
department in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and a grandson of Charles B. Pen- 
rose, one of the best known and highly es- 
teemed lawyers of the State, Speaker ot 
the State Senate for several terms, and 
Solicitor of the United States Treasury 
under Presidents William Henry Harrison 
and / John Tyler. His great-grandfather 
was Clement Biddle Penrose, who was 
educated in France and Switzerland, and 
who, on his return to Philadelphia, was 
appointed by Thomas Jefferson, then 
President of the United States, one of the three commissioners to take charge 
of the recently acquired territory of Louisiana. Boies Penrose, on both sides, 
comes from pure old colonial stock. Through his father he is a tiue de- 
scendant of William Biddle, a friend and contemporary of William Penn, 
who came to America about the same time as Penn, and who was one of the 
proprietors of the then Province of New Jersey. William Biddle had been 
an officer in the British Army, and had been converted to Quakerism by 
George Fox, the founder of the sect. William Biddle was the founder of 
the Biddle family of Philadelphia. Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General of 
Pennsylvania in the old colonial days, was another paternal ancestor. Philip 
Thomas, Private Secretary to Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, and founder of 
the Thomas family of Maryland, was a direct ancestor on the maternal side. 
Boies Penrose was educated by private tutors at home until, at the early age 
of sixteen, he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated with high 
honors in 1881. He was one of the graduates selected to deliver an oration 
at the commencement, and his subject was "Martin Van Buren as a Politi- 
cian." He studied law in the office of Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker 
Bispham, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1883. In 1884 he 
was elected to represent the Eighth Ward of Philadelphia in the Pennsyl- 
vania House of Representatives, and in 1886 the Sixth District in the Senate. 
May 9, 1889, he was elected President pro tempore of the Senate, and was re- 
elected January 6, 1 89 1, to the same office. November 4, 1890, he was re- 
elected to the State Senate. He is the author, in connection with his law 
partner, Mr. Allinson, of a history of the city government of Philadelphia, a 
volume entitled "Philadelphia, 1681-1887," and a "History of Ground 
Rents in Philadelphia." Mr. Penrose is devoted to his profession. He was 
re-elected to the Senate November, 1894, by a majority of 6,834. 



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9 




JOHN C. GRADY was born in East- 
J port, Me. , October 8, i 847 . Practically 
his career began in Philadelphia as a 
book-keeper in the employ of Gould & 
Co. After he had closed the day's ac- 
counts he devoted his evenings to the 
acquirement of the rudiments of law. 
He was admitted to practice in the courts 
of Philadelphia in October, 187 1 , and was 
very soon conceded a standing as an 
attorney of considerable knowledge and 
ceaseless application. In 1876 he was 
elected from the Seventh District, and 
his majority was greater than his party's. 
He entered the Senate the youngest man 
in the body, and was re-nominated in 1880 
without opposition and elected. During 
his second term a United States Senatorial 
bolt occurred, dividing the Republican Party council into factions. The 
contention continued for weeks, when the Democratic party managers made 
overtures to the bolters to nominate any person they could mutually agree 
upon regardless of politics who had not been voted for. The situation hav- 
ing become critical, Mr. Grady succeeded in obtaining a written declination 
from Galusha A. Grow, the bolter's candidate, which had the effect of 
destroying the balance of power held by the bolters, thus saving to his party 
and the State a United States Senator. Then Messrs. Cameron and Quay, 
the Republican leaders, entrusted him with a mission to General Garfield, 
the President-elect, to present the claims of Pennsylvania to representation 
in the Cabinet, which was performed to the satisfaction of those who dele- 
gated him with the mission and left a favorable impression on the President- 
elect. Mr. Grady was asked in a letter written to him by President Garfield 
to accept the appointment of surveyor for the port of Philadelphia, but he 
declined the offer, preferring to continue in the Senate. He was one of the 
delegates selected by the Legislature to represent Pennsylvania at the York- 
towm Centennial Celebration, and has served on many of the most important 
special committees, notably as a member of the committee appointed to 
receive General Grant on his return from his trip around the world. For 
eight years he was chairman of the General Judiciary Committee and eight 
years chairman of the Finance Committee. He took a prominent part in the 
passage of the new city charter for Philadelphia, as well as in the new Pro- 
cedure Act, which revolutionized the practice of law. He was re-elected to 
a third term, and later on was chosen President pro ton pore of the Senate 
in 1887 and re-elected in 1889. In 1892 he was renominated without 
opposition and elected by an increased majority. At the expiration 
of his present term he will have served twenty consecutive years as Senator f 
and this experience has equipped him as a most thorough parliamentarian. 



10 



Th< Sautit. 



T ACOB CROUSE, of the Eighth Sena- 
J torial District, was born in Philadel- 
phia February 14, 1840. His father, 
whose birthplace was Baltimore, Mary- 
land, was a boilermaker, and his mother 
was a native of Ireland. He attended the 
public schools in Philadelphia until eleven 
years old, when he went to work as an 
errand boy and at the age of thirteen ob- 
tained a position in a carpet store. He 
has continued in that business ever since 
and is now the head of a large carpet store 
on Market street, Philadelphia. In 1874 
he was elected to the State Senate and 
served during 1875 and 1876. During 
r88o and 1881 he served a term in City 
Councils of Philadelphia and in 1889 was 
again elected to the Senate to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of Henry S. Taylor. In 1890 he was re-elected 
for a full term by a majority of 6,864. I n l8 93 Mr - Crouse was chairman of 
the Committee on Elections and in 1895 was appointed to the same position 
and with his committee was engaged during a large portion of the session in 
the contest instituted to oust Senator Laubach, Democrat, of Northampton 
County. During the sessions of 1893 and 1895 Mr. Crouse introduced much 
important legislation. He represents the largest textile district in the State 
and the largest district in population, and his popularity was shown at the 
election in November, 1S94, by the great majority of 19,134 cast for him. 
Senator Crouse has been assiduous in the performance of his legislative duties, 
has been particularly attentive to committee work and is one of the most 
popular members of the Senate. 





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11 




SAMUEL J. M. McCARRFLL, who 
represents the Fifteenth District, is 
a native of Washington Comity, having 
been born in Buffalo Township, that 
county. He is the eldest son of the 
Rev. Alexander MeCarrell, D. D., a 
prominent Presbyterian clergyman, late 
of Claysville, Washington Comity. When 
Mr. MeCarrell was a lad he attended the 
common schools of his native home dur- 
ing the winter sessions and during the 
summer seasons he worked on a farm. 
He was energetic and a great lover of 
books, and after he had laid the founda- 
tion of his early education he entered the 
store of his uncle at Claysville as a clerk, 
and while so engaged prepared himself, 
under the instructions of his father, for 
college. In i860 he entered Washington College and four years later he was 
graduated, taking at the time the first honor of his class. From September, 
[864, to June, 1S65, Mr. MeCarrell was assistant principal of the Linsley 
Institute at Wheeling, West Virginia, and during this time began the study 
of law with Mr. McKenuan, of the firm of Richardson & McKennan, 
Wheeling, West Virginia, but before he had finished his law course he re- 
moved to Harrisburg, Pa., in 1S65, where he entered the law office of the 
Hon. David Fleming, completed his studies and was admitted to practice 
before the Dauphin County courts in 1866. He then became the assistant 
and law partner of Mr. Fleming, and remained as such up to the time of 
Mr. Fleming's death in 1N90. Mr. MeCarrell was twice elected to the office 
of District Attorney for Dauphin County, from 188 1 to 1S87. He has, since 
his residence in Harrisburg, been very closely identified with many chari- 
table institutions of the State capital city, and in church work has always 
taken a great interest. He is a Republican and in all the campaigns of 
his party, local, State or national, he has been in demand, because he has 
been recognized as a forcible and eloquent speaker. He was a delegate to 
the Republican National Convention in 18S8, which nominated General 
Harrison for the Presidency of the United States. In 1892 Mr. MeCarrell 
was elected State Senator to represent the Fifteenth Senatorial District. 
Dauphin County, by a large majority. In the nominations and elec- 
tions for the several political offices which Mr. MeCarrell held, is a fact 
worthy of mention that in all of them he was tendered the nominations 
by acclamation and elected by more than the normal party majority. Senator 
MeCarrell has displayed great interest in important legislation, is a good 
debater and very popular with his fellow Senators. At the session of [895 
he was a member of the Committees on Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, 
Constitutional Reform, Flections and Public Buildings, Legislative Appor- 
tionment, Corporations and Railroads. Mr. MeCarrell follows his profession 
in Harrisburg and has a large clientage and a lucrative practice. 



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The Senate. 




TOSEPH MILLIKEN WOODS is the 
only man who has been re-elected 
- Senator from the Thirty -first District, 
composed of Perry, Juniata and Mifflin 
Counties. He was born on January 5, 
1854, at New Berlin, Union County, Pa. 
His father was an attorney-at-law, and 
the Senator's paternal grandmother was 
the youngest daughter of John Wither- 
spoon, a signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. The Senator attended 
school in Lewistown, Pa., until 1870, 
and then spent three years as a student 
in the Bellefoute Academy. In 1873 he 
entered Princeton College, from which he 
graduated in 1876. He has been practicing 
as an attorney-at-lavv at Eewistown since 
1878. He was elected District Attorney 
of Mifflin County in 1880, and in 1888 he was chosen State Senator, defeat- 
ing George Jacobs, the Democratic candidate, who, in 1890, made the speech 
nominating William A. Wallace for Governor at the Scran ton Convention, 
which made Robert E. Pattison the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Mr. 
Woods was re-elected to the Senate by 296 majority in 1892, when his 
Democratic opponent was Joseph C. McAlister, whom Perry County elected 
District Attorney. Mr. Woods was a delegate from the Thirty -first Sena- 
torial District in the Republican State Convention of 18S3. In 1895 Mr. 
Woods was chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations and also a 
member of the Committees on Canals and Inland Navigation, Centennial 
Affairs, Game and Fisheries, Judiciary General, Judiciary Focal and New 
Counties and County Seats. Among the societies to which Senator Woods 
belongs are Odd Fellows, the Apprentices' Literary Society of Fewistown, 
and the Patriotic Order Sous of America. He is an athlete and was form- 
erly an expert baseball player. He has been conspicuous in securing legis- 
lation beneficial to the fish and game interests of the State. 






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k ANIEL S. WALTON, who represents 
the old Democratic district of Greene 
and Fayette, was born in Greene County 
and lived in it until he was fifteen years 
of age. He aided his father in his store, 
mill and farm when not in school. He 
received a collegiate education in Oska- 
loosa ( Iowa) College, where his father has 
resided for twenty-five years, and in 
Waynesburg College, from which he re- 
ceived the degree of Master of Arts. 
Although only forty-one years old he has 
been a member of the bar twenty years, 
and nearly all that time has been a mem- 
ber of the well-known firm of Wyly, Bu- 
chanan & Walton. Mr. Walton has en- 
joyed an extensive and successful practice 
and has given much of his time to other 
business enterprises of a public and private nature. He is president of the 
Borough Council of Waynesburg, president of the Waynesburg Electric Light 
and Power Company and has been for nine years president of the Board of 
Trustees of the Waynesburg College. His nomination for Senator was given 
him without solicitation, and in view of the usually large Democratic majority 
in the district he seemed to be leading a forelorn hope when he entered the 
canvass for election, but he was chosen by a plurality of 2,350 and came 
within 78 votes of carrying the overwhelmingly Democratic county of Greene. 
He was honored by being appointed chairman of the Judicial Apportionment 
Committee, a distinction rarely conferred on a new member of the Senate. 
On legislation involving legal questions of importance Mr. Walton took a 
prominent part and made a number of speeches of great force. He particu- 
larly antagonized the civil procedure bills drawn by Judge Arnold, of Phila- 
delphia, because of the evil results he believed would follow their enactment 
into law. In addition to being chairman of the Judicial Apportionment Com- 
mittee Mr. Walton was a member of the Committees on Judiciary General, 
Municipal Affairs, Mines and Mining, Constitutional Reform Vice and Im- 
morality and Centennial Affairs. 









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TI /" U. BREWER, of the Thirty-third 
V\ . District, was born in Montgomery 
Township, Franklin County, on April 3, 
1844. His father was a farmer, and his 
early years were spent in the labors inci- 
dent to that occupation. Receiving his 
early education in the schools of Green- 
castle, Pa., he taught for a number of 
years in Franklin and Lancaster Counties 
and then attended the Millersville State 
Normal School, graduating in the scien- 
tific course. After his graduation he 
was connected with the normal school 
for nearly three years as instructor in 
mathematics. He returned to Franklin 
County in 1868, and having, while 
teaching, taken up the study of law, 
was admitted to the bar on December 
1 2th of that year. From that time he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession and has won enviable and honorable prominence 
as a lawyer. His business is not confined to the courts of his own county, 
but extends to the adjoining county of Fulton, and for the past eight years 
he has been retained in a large number of the cases appealed from the lower 
to the Supreme Courts. An ardent and active Republican, he has always 
taken a prominent part in politics, and has done effective campaign work in 
many parts of the State, but he was never an aspirant for public office until 
1892, when, as the Republican candidate for State Senate in the Thirty-third 
District, composed of the counties of Franklin and Huntingdon, he was 
elected by a majority of 1,812, the largest ever cast therein for that office. 
On entering upon his duties in the Senate in 1893 ^ r - Brewer was made 
chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations and given a place on the 
important Committers on Judiciary General, Judiciary Local, Congressional 
Apportionment and Library. At the session of 1895 Mr. Brewer was chair- 
man of the Committee on Judiciary General. From the first he has taken 
an active and useful part in legislation, and his legal training and experience, 
and incisive logical powers as a debater have given him a prominence and 
influence not often won. Regular in attendance and thoroughly acquainted 
with the character and scope of the measures as they come up for considera- 
tion and disposal, he is prepared to vote upon a discriminating knowledge 
of their merits. His reasons for advocacy are clearly stated, his opposition 
made with courtesy and freedom from acrimony, and these qualities, added 
to a respect for his ability and sincerity, and esteem as a man, have conduced 
towards making Mr. Brewer a popular and influential member of the Senate 
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SAMUEL P. WHITE, who represents 
the Forty-sixth District, composed 
of Beaver and Washington Counties, was 
born September 2, 1847, in New Brigh- 
ton, Beaver County. He was educated 
in the public schools and was graduated 
from Eastman's Business College, Pough- 
keepsie, New York. He is a manu- 
facturer and contractor, and has been 
connected in that capacity with very ex- 
tensive enterprises. He is president of 
the Penn Bridge Company, at Beaver 
Falls, Pa., and is interested in other 
enterprises of importance. When fifteen 
years of age he served with the three 
months' emergency troops. In 1885 he 
was chairman of the Beaver County 
Republican Committee and in 1886 the 
nominee of the Republican Party of his county for Senator in the district. 
In the interest of harmony, although having carried Beaver County by a 
large majority at the primaries, he withdrew from the contest and left Mr. 
McLaiu, of Washington County, the only Republican candidate. In 1890 
Mr. White was nominated for the Senate by Beaver County, but owing to dis- 
sensions within the party no district nomination was made and he was de- 
feated by William B. Dunlap, Democrat. In 1894 he tvas elected by over 
5,800 plurality. He served on the Committees on Congressional Apportion- 
ment, Accounts, Centennial Affairs, Corporations, Finance, Legislative Ap- 
portionment, Railroads and Public Printing. Mr. White has an aggressive 
and independent composition but is always a supporter of all party measures. 





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BENJAMIN B. MITCHELL was born 
on a farm in Tioga County, Pa., 
January 14, 1839. He is of Scotch-Irish 
descent, and a son of Richard Mitchell, 
who was among the first settlers of Tioga 
County. He was educated in the schools 
of his county, Lewisburg University and 
Bryant and Stratton's Business College, 
Buffalo, N. Y. In i860 he established a 
drug and book store in Troy, Pa., and 
though a stranger and without any prac- 
tical experience, succeeded in building 
up a prosperous business. In August, 
1 86 1, he helped recruit and organize the 
first cavalry company in the county, was 
chosen first lieutenant and with his com- 
pany joined the Eleventh Pennsylvania 
Cavalry. In 1862 Lieutenant Mitchell 
was promoted to captain and took an active part in the campaigns and bat- 
tles of the war until October, 1864, when he was offered a major's commis- 
sion, but having served already over three years for which he had enlisted 
and being broken in health, he declined further promotion, left the service 
and returned to Troy, and as soon as his health permitted resumed mer- 
cantile business. On May 29, 1865, he married Ellen E. Pomeroy, only 
daughter of Samuel W. Pomeroy, of Troy. In 1884, with others, he 
engaged in the live stock business in South Dakota and later the 
company was incorporated as the Keystone Land and Cattle Company. 
Captain Mitchell was chosen secretary and treasurer of the company 
and has continued to look after their large business interests, both at 
home and in the West, to the present time. His principal business is that 
of banker, having associated with Mr. S. W. Pomeroy under the firm name 
of Pomeroy & Mitchell, successors to the old reliable banking house of 
Pomeroy Bros. For many years he has taken an active interest in politics 
and public matters generally. He has served as Justice of the Peace at Troy 
by appointment and by election. He has been a member of the Borough 
Council, Clerk of the Borough and an active member for many years of the 
Board of Education of which he is now secretary. He was a member of the 
House from 1882 to 1884 and elected to the State Senate November, 1892. 
At the session of 1895 Senator Mitchell was chairman of the Committee on 
Mines and Mining (a position he also held in 1893) and a member of the 
Committees on Agriculture, Congressional Apportionment, Education, 
Finance, Insurance, Pensions and Gratuities. 



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WILLIAM PRESTON SNYDER, of 
the Nineteenth District, is a na- 
tive of Chester County. He was born in 
East Vincent Township, October 7, 1851, 
and received his education in the com- 
mon schools of his native township and 
his early training on a farm. Later in 
life he attended the Millers ville State 
Normal School and Ursinus College. He 
taught school during the winters of 1868 
and 1869. After a course of study he 
graduated as a physician, in March, 
1S73, from the medical department of 
the University of Pennsylvania. He 
returned to Chester County, (Spring 
City), where he now resides, and began 
the practice of medicine and continued 
as a practitioner until 1886, when he 
accepted the position as Medical Examiner for the Relief Department of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which position he held for nearly two 
years, from February, 18S6, until December, 1887. He was appointed and 
served as Postmaster of Spring City from October, 1883, until August, 1885. 
He has always taken a lively interest in the politics of his party, the Repub- 
lican, and was an active worker in all of its campaigns. In November, 
1887, he was nominated for Prothonotary of his county, was elected by a 
large majority and served in that office until January, 1891. The year pre- 
ceding his relinquishment of the office he was made the chairman of the 
County Republican Committee, January, 1890. At the county primaries (in 
the fall, 1890, while serving as Prothonotary), he was nominated for mem- 
ber of the lower House of the Legislature and was elected at the fa' 1 election. 
When nominated he resigned the office of chairman of the County Com- 
mittee but gave his full attention to the work of the campaign. He was a 
delegate from Chester County to the Republican State Convention in 1878, 
which nominated General Henry M. Hoyt for Governor of the State, and he 
was also a delegate to the State Convention that nominated General James 
A. Beaver for Governor in 18S2. At the general election in the fall of 1892, 
Mr. Snyder was promoted to the higher branch of the Legislature after a 
very warm contest for the nomination. In the session of the Legislature of 
1895 Senator Snyder was chairman of the Committee on Health and Sani- 
tation, and a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Railroads, 
Counties and Townships, Congressional Apportionment, Finance and Insur- 
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OHN A. LEMON, of Blair County, 
of the Thirty-fifth District, was born 
in Cambria County, Pa., and has resided 
in Blair County all his life. He received 
a common school education at Hollidays- 
burg. For years Colonel Lemon has been 
a coal operator and railroad contractor, 
and of the thousands of employees under 
him while in active business there is not 
one who does not regard him as a personal 
friend. Colonel Lemon was once elected 
Burgess of Hollidaysburg. In 1S72 he 
was nominated for Senator in a strong 
Democratic district. So great was his 
popularity that the Democrats declined 
jp to nominate a candidate in opposition to 

- — .?dg . M. 2 I him and he was unanimously elected. In 

1S76 his constituents demanded that he 
again represent them in the Senate, giving him a majority of 691 in a district 
usually Democratic by one thousand. Colonel Lemon's name was frequently 
mentioned in connection with State offices, but he usually declined the honor 
until 1S80, when he was elected Auditor General by a handsome majority. 
Returning to his home at the expiration of his term of three years, he was 
again returned to the Senate, and has been a member of that body continu- 
ously ever since. He was elected to his third term in the Senate by 1,906- 
majority. His re-election in 1892, when his defeat was confidently predicted 
by the Democratic opposition, was secured by a majority of 1,655. I" l! ^95 
Mr. Lemon was chairman of the Committee on Inland Navigation and also a 
member of the Committees on Centennial Affairs, Finance, Public Printing 
and Railroads. His modest ways and courteous treatment to his associates 
have made him one of the most popular members of the Senate. While mak- 
ing no claims as an orator, he is still successful in securing for his constitu- 
ents the best results in legislation, and the interests of the people at large are 
safe in his hands. 




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|AVID B. McCREARY, of the Forty- 
ninth District, was born on February 
27, 1826, in Millcreek Township, Erie 
County, Pa., of Scotch-Irish parentage. 
His father was a farmer, who emigrated 
from Lancaster County, Pa., to Erie 
County in 1800. His mother, whose 
maiden name was Lydia Swan, came 
from Dauphin County about the same 
time. General McCreary was educated 
in the common schools, Erie Academy 
and Washington College, at Washington, 
Pa., attending the last named institution 
during the years 1848 and 1849. For 
some years he followed school teaching 
in Erie County and in Kentucky. Eater 
on he studied law, was admitted to the 
bar and has since been a practicing 
attorney. At the beginning of the War of the Rebellion he went out as 
First Lieutenant of the Erie Regiment, three months' troops. Afterwards 
he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, for three years' service, entering as Lieutenant-Colonel. He 
was promoted to Colonel, and when mustered out was brevetted Brigadier- 
General for gallant service. General McCreary was a member of the 
Pennsylvania Legislature in t866 and Adjutant General of Pennsylvania 
from 1867 to 1870. He was again elected a member of the House in 1870 
and State Senator from Erie County in 1888 and reelected 1S92. He was a 
delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1882, which nominated 
General James A. Beaver for Governor. He has been a trustee of Dixmont 
Asylum for the Insane, on behalf of the State, for many years, and is a 
State trustee of Ediuboro State Normal School. General McCreary was 
chairman of the General Judiciary Committee in the Senate during the 
session of 1891, and was again assigned this important chairmanship for the 
session of 1893. Mr. McCreary was chairman of the Judiciary Special 
Committee in 1895 and also a member of the Committees on Congressional 
Apportionment, Judiciary General, Insurance, Library, Mines and Mining 
and Military Affairs. He introduced and had passed in the Senate many 
important bills in the session of 1895, among them the bill establishing 
libraries in the common schools of the State. 



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ARRY G. STILES, who represents 



composed of Lehigh County, was born 
December 16, 1856, in Allentown. He 
received his early education in the com- 
mon schools of Allentown. Later he 
attended the public schools at Princeton, 
111., for six years, after which on June 
30, 1874, he graduated from the Allen- 
town high school. He subsequently took 
a special course in the Muhlenberg Col- 
lege in that place and in 1N7S graduated 
from the Harvard Law School in Cam- 
bridge, Mass. On April 14, 1879, he was 
admitted to practice at the bar of Lehigh 
County. In 18S9 he was elected District 
Attorney of the county by the unusually 
large majority of 3,000. He served three 
years, the end of his term, and in 1894 was nominated as the Democratic 
candidate for Senator in the district. While his majority was small, owing 
to unfavorable Democratic conditions all over the country, he was the only 
man on his party's ticket saved from the political wreck. He has frequently 
served as a delegate to the County and State Conventions of his party. Mr. 
Stiles' maternal grandfather. John S. Gibons, was a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Senate in the first half ol this century, and his father, John D. Stiles, 
for nearly fifty years a practicing lawyer at the Lehigh County bar, served 
in the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth and Forty-first Congresses of the United 
States. Senator Stiles was a member of the Committers on Corporations, 
Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, Vice and Immorality, Congressional 
Apportionment and Constitutional Reform. He was also a member of the 
Elections Committee of the Senate which sat to determine the election con- 
test in the Eighteenth Senatorial District in the case of Heller vs. Laubach. 
He is one of the youngest Senators and has shown great aptitude for the 
duties of his position. 




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ENRY G. MOVER, who represents 
in the Senate the county of Bucks, 
was born in Hilltowu township, Bucks 
County, August 28, 1 848. He was raised 
on the farm of his father and began fitting 
himself for future duties by attending the 
common schools of his district. This 
educational experience was supplemented 
by availing himself of the opportunities 
afforded by higher schools of learning, 
winding up his schooling by taking a 
course in the Quaker City Business Col- 
lege, from which he graduated with 
honors when twenty years old. In 1879, 
when Perkasie became a borough, he was 
elected Justice of the Peace, which posi- 
tion he filled three terms of five years 
each. During that time he had an ex- 
tensive connection with the settlement of estates and other business in 
Bucks County. In 1882 he purchased a half interest in the Centra/ News, a 
local paper printed at Perkasie. With Mahlon Sellers, under the firm name 
of M. H. Sellers & Co., he became one of the editors of the paper. Mr. 
Sellers dying soon after S. R. Kramer purchased his interest, and the 
Central News has since been conducted under the firm name of Mover & 
Kramer. Mr. Mover has been an active Republican in his county, having 
been prominently identified with the local organization and having attended 
several Republican State Conventions as a delegate. In 1892 he was one 
of the Republican candidates for the House from his county, and, although 
failing of election, received a large complimentary vote from the opposite 
party in the districts in which he was personally well known. In 1894 he 
defeated ex-Representative Jamison by a majority of 1,577, in a county which 
two years before elected a solid Democratic delegation to the House. At 
the session of 1895 Mr. Mover was chairman of the Committee on Public 
Buildings and also serve:! on the Committees on Appropriations, Finance, 
Insurance, Mines and Mining and Retrenchment and Reform. Although he 
had never been connected with the Legislature prior to 1895, Mr. Mover had 
no difficulty in adapting himself to the duties of his position as a Senator and 
rounded up the first half of his term with credit to himself and the State 



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ARVEY W. HAINES, who repre- 
sents the Twenty-eighth Senatorial 
District, composed of York County, was 
born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Octo- 
ber ii, 1838, his father and mother 
having left York County soon after their 
marriage and located in the place of Mr. 
Haines' birth. Their means of travel 
was a two-horse team. They were not 
satisfied with their western home and re- 
turned to Windsor Township, York 
County. In this place Senator Haines 
has resided most of his life. He was 
educated in the public schools and in the 
Millersville Normal School. For a num- 
ber of years he was a teacher in York 
and Lancaster Counties and for sixteen 
years a professor of mathematics in Bal- 
timore, beginning in 1863. About 1880 he returned to his old home and 
pursued farming until the present time. Senator Haines has long been an 
active participator in Democratic politics in his county and has frequently 
been honored by his party with political positions. He has filled various 
offices in his township, and was elected to the House from York County in 
[888 and 1S90, and served at the sessions of 1889 and 1891 with marked sat- 
isfaction to his constituents. He was delegate to the Democratic State 
Convention at Scranton which nominated Pattisonfor Governor and was one 
of the representatives from his county at the State Conventions held in Allen- 
town in 1884 and 1889. He was nominated for the Senate in 1894 and as a 
result of the demoralized condition of the Democratic Party consequent on 
the protracted business depression, had a hard fight for election. At the 
session of the Legislature of 1895 he served on the Committees on Agricul- 
ture, Pensions and Gratuities, Yice and Immorality, Federal Relations and 
Centennial Affairs. He was particularly interested in legislation calculated 
to advance the interests of the farmers of the State. 




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JOHN H. BROWN was born in Grape- 
J ville, Westmoreland County, Pa., June 
29, 1843. He was chairman of the Re- 
publican County Committee in 1891 and 
[893, and was elected to the Senate 
November 8, 1892. He was Westmore- 
land County's nominee for Congress in 
1894 in the Twenty-first District, and 
Hon. D. B. Heiner was re-nominated on 
the 325th ballot. 



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JOHN HERR LANDIS, Senator from 
I the Thirteenth District, composed of 
part of Lancaster, has just turned his 
fortv-second year, having been born in 
Manor Township, Lancaster County, on 
January 31, 1853. His father was a 
farmer and miller, and after having 
received his education in the common 
schools and at the Millersville State 
Normal School, Mr. Landis took up the 
same occupations, and, with the excep- 
tion of the time spent in public and 
political work, has pursued them until 
recently. Trained from boyhood in 
Republican principles, he began to take 
part in his party's campaign before his 
vears had given him the right to vote, 
and he soon became active in its councils. 
His first appearance in State politics was in 1877, when he was a delegate 
to the Republican State Convention. In 1878 he was elected to the House 
of Representatives and his course was so satisfactory to his constituents that 
he was returned in 1880 and 1882. His participation in legislative affairs 
was active and influential and made its impress upon the laws of the State. 
The very important and necessary law regulating primary elections was 
introduced and pressed to final passage by Mr. Landis. Between his retire- 
ment from the House in 1883, and his election to the Senate in 1892, Mr. 
Landis followed his avocation as farmer and miller, taking, however, an 
active part in local and State politics. In every presidential and guberna- 
torial campaign since he became a voter in 1S74, he has been a prominent 
figure, and has addressed large numbers of meetings in advocacy of Repub- 
lican principles and standard bearers. Always a steadfast adherent of that 
matchless statesman, James G. Blaine, he edited, in 1884, a campaign paper 
called The Plumed Knight, which did much to swell the phenomenal 
majority given that leader in Pennsylvania. And, as a follower of Mr. 
Blaine, he was no less earnest in his advocacy of the system of political 
economy whose ablest defender was the man from Maine, and from 1890 
until 1895 Mr. Landis was secretary of the Farmers' Protective Tariff 
League of Pennsylvania. He was president of the Agricultural Society of 
Lancaster from 1885 until 1893, and in the taking of the census of 1890 
served as United States Supervisor for the Second District, composed of the 
Counties of Lancaster, Chester, Delaware and York. Senator Landis is a 
member of the Committees on Education, Appropriations, Apportionment, 
Health and Sanitation. At the last session he introduced several important 
measures, among them those fixing the minimum school term at seven 
months ; defining and punishing bribery at elections and providing for the 
floating of the United States flag from every school-house. 



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AMES GEORGK MITCHELL, of the 

Thirty-seventh District, was born in 
Perrysville, Jefferson Comity, Pa., Jan- 
nary 15, 1847. He is of Scotch-Irish 
lineage, his ancestors having settled in 
this State in the pioneer days of the 
colonist. His father was High Sheriff of 
Jefferson County in 1854 and was well 
known and highly esteemed for his many 
manly and frank traits of character. 
These characteristics Mr. Mitchell retains 
in a very marked degree. His education 
was received in the common schools oi 
Jefferson County, but before he had com- 
pleted his studies the War of the Rebel- 
lion broke out and young Mitchell, 
though unable to enlist as a soldier, 
because of his youth, determined to go 
with his companions and enlisted as a drummer boy in Company A, One 
Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served, with 
his regiment, from Yorktown to Appomattox, where the war closed. His 
service in the army covered the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Charles 
City Cross Roads, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellors vile, Get- 
tysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvauia, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Sailor's Creek 
and Appomattox. He enjoyed the distinction of being the only Union 
soldier present at the famous meeting between General Hancock and the 
Confederate General Stewart after the capture of Stewart's entire division at 
Spottsvlvania, May 12, 1864. His regiment, known as " The Wild Cats," 
lost during the war two hundred and fifty killed in battle. After the close 
of the war he returned to his home, Hamilton, Jefferson County, Pa., and 
settled down to learning the trade of plasterer, which he followed for ten 
years, after which he entered upon a mercantile life, which business he still 
follows. For ten years he was Captain in the State National Guard and 
only relinquished that position when the cares of business became onerous. 
He has always been an active party politician, taking a lively interest in all 
the contests of his party. He was a delegate to the State Republican Con- 
vention in 1888, a member of the Republican State Committee in 1890, a 
member of the Board of County Auditors for Jefferson County in 1874 and 
was elected to the State Senate, as a Republican, at the election of 1892, 
receiving a majority of over 3,156 votes. In 1895 Mr. Mitchell was 
chairman of the Senate Committee on Pensions and Gratuities and a member 
of the Committees on Appropriations, Congressional Apportionment, Legis- 
lative Apportionment, Military Affairs, Agriculture, Mines and Mining, 
Canals and Inland Navigation and Public Health and Sanitation, and a 
member of the special committee to investigate the workings of the Brooks 
High License Law. Senator Mitchell is not a debater, but in committee is 
an earnest and successful worker. 



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CHRISTIAN C. KAUFFMAN, one of 
the Senators from Lancaster County, 
was born April 17, 1857, in Columbia, 
Lancaster County, where he still resides. 
After possessing himself of an ordinary 
common school education he attended 
Willistou Seminary, East Hampton, 
Mass. He soon after entered the legal 
profession and has been practicing it 
with success. He is Columbia's City 
Solicitor, Solicitor for the School Board 
of the town, director and general manager 
of the East Columbia Iron Company and 
general manager of the Columbia Land 
Company. In 1888 he was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives 
of Pennsylvania and in 1890 was honored 
with a re-election. Mr. Kauffman was 
chosen to the Senate under peculiar circumstances. He is an avowed 
enemy of Senator Cameron from a political standpoint because he does not 
believe the interests of the Republican Party are promoted by having him 
represent the organization in the United States Senate. In 1894 he became 
a candidate for Senate with the distinct understanding that he would vote 
against the re-nomination of Cameron. Senator Smith was trotted out as a 
distinctive Cameron man, and ex-Representative Stober appeared in the 
field with leanings toward the same person. As the campaign progressed 
the Cameron people realized that their only salvation was in withdrawing 
Senator Smith and concentrating their votes on Mr. Stober. The battle 
raged fiercely and Mr. Kauffman won on the independent lines he had 
marked out for himself, carrying some of the heaviest Cameron strongholds 
in Lancaster County. At the session of 1895 he fearlessly fought the 
extravagant expenditures involved in many bills introduced. A favorite 
measure of his was a bill to require depositaries of State funds to pay two 
per cent, a year for the privilege of speculating with the public moneys, 
which they have been accustomed getting without giving any equivalent to 
the Commonwealth. He was chairman of the Committee on Constitutional 
Reform and served also on the Committees on Federal Relations, Game and 
Fisheries, Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, Military Affairs and Munici- 
pal Affairs. Mr. Kauffman was married in 1883 to Margaret R., daughter of 
Hiram Wilson, and has three children, Helen Jean, James Wilson Lee and 
Elizabeth Wilson. His grandfather, Isaac Kauffman, was a member of the 
Pennsvlvania House of Representatives and his father, Christians. Kauff- 
man, was a Senator from 1879 to 1882 and a member of the House for two 
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ARTIN LUTHER McQUOWN, 
1M who represents the Thirty-fourth 
District, composed of Centre, Clearfield 
and Clinton Counties, was born near 
Marion, Indiana County. His father's 
health having been shattered by beingcon- 
fined in Libby prison during the war, and 
his brother having been wounded while in 
his country's service, the subject of this 
sketch, after possessing himself of an 
elementary education, was required to 
make his own livelihood. On March 10, 
[868, he walked to Xew Washington, 
Clearfield County, a distance of thirty 
miles. He obtained employment as a 
stable boy and farm hand. He worked 
during the day and applied himself to 
books at night. After working as a 
teamster and tanner for a year he apprenticed himself to the shoemaking 
trade, working at it about four years. He saved little money and entered the 
Xew Washington Academy, paying his board by working on the bench 
mornings and evenings. At the end of his first term he was examined for 
a teacher and in the winter of 1871 taught his first term of school for S20 a 
month. In 1N74 he was elected to a good position in the Curwensville 
graded schools, and in the spring of 1878 ran for County Superintendent of 
Schools of Clearfield County and was elected over seven worthy competitors. 
In 1S81 he was re-elected against sharp opposition and served until the ex- 
piration of his term in 1NN4. He has the credit of infusing new life into the 
educational work of Clearfield County, and laying the foundation of a work 
that has placed that county in the front rank in the efficiency of her schools. 
A short time prior to leaving the superinteudency he was admitted to the 
bar, having pursued his studies for three years in the law office of Murray 
6c Gordon. In 1SS5 he was chosen chairman of the Republican County 
Committee and was continued in that position for five years, during which 
time the Republicans of Clearfield County won their first decisive victories. 
In 1890 he purchased the Raftsman 's Journal ', the old Republican newspaper 
of Clearfield County. He applied himself to the work of editing this paper 
with flattering results. His paper has been positive and progressive on all 
public questions. It has been the soldiers' and laborers' friend and always 
loyal in tone. On September 13, 1894, he was nominated for Senator in the 
district which he represents, and in the following November was elected by 
a plurality of over 6,000 in a district which four years before gave P. Gray 
Meek, Democrat, about 4,500. Senator McOuown was chairman of the 
Committee on Printing and a member of the Committees on Judicial, Con- 
gressional and Legislative Apportionment, Judiciary General, Education and 
Game and Fish, during the session of 1895. 



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ANTHONY F. BANNON, who repre- 
sents the Twenty-fifth dstrict, was 
born at Blossburg, Tioga County, on 
October 13, 1S47. His father, a coal 
miner, came from Ireland at the age of 
nine years. He was the only son of 
Anthony Bannon, a well-to-do farmer. 
His wife was a daughter of William 
Louergan, a merchant, who emigrated 
from Ireland in 1836. Senator Bannon 
was educated in night schools and has 
been occupied in coal mining, farming, 
as a brakeman, clerk, merchant, coal 
dealer and oil producer. In the political 
field he was a member of the Council of 
Blossburg in 1S75 and of the Council of 
Kendall Creek, McKean County, in 1880. 
He was elected Coroner of McKean 
County in 1880, chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1S83, 
Sheriff in 18S4, delegate, to the Republican State Convention in 1S85, a 
Congressional conferee in 1888 and 1890, the nominee of McKean County 
for Senator in 1888, reading clerk of the session of the State Senate in 1889 
and journal clerk at the session of 1891, and elected Senator in 1892. In 
1895 Mr. Bannon was chairman of the Committee on Accounts and also 
a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Constitutional Reform, 
Mines and Mining and Public Printing. His first vote was cast for W. H. 
Armstrong for Congress on the day he was twenty-one, October 13, 1868, 
and the following month he voted for General Grant for President. He has 
been a- hard-working Republican, always ready to give his time and 
means to the success of the ticket and every name 0:1 it. and his Republican 
constituents have shown their appreciation of his fidelity by repeatedly hon- 
oring him with responsible positions, which he fille;! with ability and to the 
satisfaction of his people. 





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U/IUJAM HENRY ANDREWS, of 

> < Crawford County, was born in 
Youugsville, Warren County, Pa., Jan- 
uary 14, 1842. His paternal ancestor 
fought under the banner of William the 
Conqueror, and was knighted for gallan- 
try and meritorious services at the battle 
of Hastings, October 14, 1066, and the 
family name will be found among Eng- 
land's truest patriots and bravest defend- 
ers for many centuries. On his mother's 
side Mr. Andrews is of Puritan descent, 
the first of his maternal ancestors in 
this country dating his advent to America 
back to the earliest settlement made by 
the Pilgrims in Massachusetts. A great- 
grandfather on his mother's side of the 
family served in the Continental Army 
during the Revolution under Montgomery at the storming of Quebec ; was 
with General Gates at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, and with 
Washington at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Another ancestor 
served under Washington throughout the entire struggle for independence. 
In the War of the Rebellion also the family name was well represented 
among the defenders of the Union. His father. Dr. Jeremiah Andrews, w r as 
born in Mitchelltown, Ireland, educated in Dublin and emigrated to this 
country when twenty-five years of age. He was recognized as a skillful and 
popular practitioner. Dr. Andrews' wife, the mother of W. H. Andrews 
was a daughter of Dr. Noah Weld, a member of one of the oldest and best 
known families of Warren County. After obtaining such rudimentary educa- 
tion as the public schools of his time and section afforded, W. H. Andrews 
early in life entered upon a mercantile career, and up to the year 1880 was 
largely engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1880 he was elected chairman 
of the Republican Committee of Crawford County, a position he held for 
three successive terms. He was again unanimously elected in 1886. He 
served with credit to himself and advantage to his party as first assistant sec- 
retary to the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania in 1S87-88, and 
so ably did he discharge the duties to which he was assigned that his work 
obtained such hearty recognition at the hands of the old party leaders, that 
he was made chairman of the State Committee in 1888, and was re-elected 
in 18S9 and again in 1890. He was a member of the House in 1889 and 
1893 and in 1894 was elected to the Senate by a majority of 1,975 from 
Crawford County. At the session of 1895 he was chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Banks and also a member of the Committees on Appropriations, 
Agriculture, Corporations, Election, Finance, New Counties and County 
Seats and Railroads. Always a stalwart Republican and ever loyal to his 
associates under all conditions and every circumstance, Mr. Andrews is 
regarded with admiration by his friends and by those whom he opposes as 
an honorable and able antagonist. 



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PDMUND B. HARDENBERGH, who 
I _j represents the Twenty-sixth Senator- 
ial district, composed of Susquehanna and 
Wayne Counties, was born at Wilsonville, 
Wayne County, July 31, 1S46. When 
ten years old he picked slate from coal 
and canal boats and from revolving screens 
and until he attained the age of sixteen 
followed slate picking and shifting coal 
dumps, <S:c. He then became a flagman 
on a gravel train on the Erie railroad 
and filled that position for two years, 
after which he served two years as bag- 
gage master and messenger. In 1870 he 
was made a conductor on the line and 
has held the place ever since, running 
between Honesdale and Port Jervis, New 
York, when not attending to his legisla- 
tive duties. Mr. Hardenbergh has exhibited fast qualities as a political 
racer. The county in which he resides is inclined to be Democratic, but in 
1884 he carried it by 325 plurality for the House and in 18S6 by 750. He 
served in that body at the sessions of 1SS5 and 1S87. In 1890 he was a 
candidate for Senate in his district but in the interest of harmony in the 
party withdrew in favor of ex-Senator Lines. In 1894 Mr. Hardenbergh was 
nominated as the Republican candidate for Senator without difficulty and 
secured his election by about 3,000. He has been prominently identified 
with politics at his home and in 1891 and 1892 was chairman of the Repub- 
lican Committee of Wayne County. He also represented it in Republican 
State Conventions. At the last session he introduced a bill to give to Sus- 
quehanna and Pike Counties the $10,000 which the Erie Railroad Company 
has been required about half a century to pay annually to the State for the 
privilege of running through Pennsylvania. Mr. Hardenbergh was a mem- 
ber of the Committees on Banks, Mines and Mining, Health and Sanitation, 
Vice and Immorality an 1 Miiiiary, among others. 







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JAMES S. FRUiT, Senator from the 
Forty-seventh District, composed of 
the counties of Mercer and Lawrence, 
was born in Jefferson Township, in Mer- 
cer County, October 17, [849. His father 
emigrated at an early age from eastern 
Pennsylvania and settled on the farm in 
Mercer County, whereon Mr. Fruit was 
born. He was educated in the common 
schools and at the age of fourteen left the 
farm and became a clerk in a store at 
Clarksville. He afterward attended the 
Edinboro State Normal School. He fol- 
lowed mercantile pursuits at Wheatland 
and Hubbard, Ohio, and then embarked in 
the hardware business at Sharon, Mercer 
County, where he soon built up a large 
trade, which he still continues. Senator 
Fruit cast his first vote for the Republican Party and has always been active 
in local and State politics. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican 
State Convention, and in 1886 was elected to the House. Taking at once a 
prominent part in legislative matters, and especially in the important work 
of the Appropriations Committee, he made so favorable a record that his con- 
stituents, breaking a hitherto almost invariable rule, re-elected him in 1888 
and 1890. In the session of 189 1 he was made chairman of the Appropria- 
tions Committee. In that year an attempt was made to increase the State 
appropriations for common schools. As reported from committee, the Gen- 
eral Appropriation Bill increased the annual grant to the schools from $2,000- 
000 to $3,000,000. Mr. Fruit's knowledge of tbe State's finances, obtained 
through his labors on the Appropriation Committee, satisfied him that an 
even greater increase could safely be made, and he offered an amendment in 
the House raising the sum to $5, 000, 000 per annum and succeeded in having 
his proposition adopted- No measure more popular with the general public 
was ever placed on the statute books, and Mr. Fruit's efforts in its behalf 
added to his strength with his constituents. In addition to this measure the 
several appropriation bills coming before his committee were so carefully and 
prudently considered that, for the first time, possibly, in the history of the 
Legislature, every one favorably reported passed both Houses. In 1892 Mr. 
Fruit was nominated for Senator. The strongest Democrat in the district, a 
man with a brilliant war record and who had once carried the Republican 
county of Lawrence, was pitted against him for election, but Mr. Fruit came 
off victor with a handsome majority. In 1895 he was chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations and a member of the Congressional Apportionment, 
Education, Municipal Affairs, Public Health and Sanitation Committees. 
Senator Fruit from the first has taken an active part in the business of the 
Senate. 



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DWARD H. LAUBACH, who repre- 
sents the Eighteenth District, was 
born September i, 1842, in what is now 
the town of Northampton, Northampton 
County, Pa. He is of German ancestry, 
the first of that name in this country, 
Christian Laubach leaving the Palatinate 
of Germany, embarking 011 the ship 
jj&jk^ *• Queen Elizabeth at Rotterdam and land 

ing at Philadelphia September 16, 1738. 
He settled in what is now Saucon Town- 
ship on the lands of the Perm heirs. The 
family has since become numerous and 
occupy a prominent place in the political, 
business and professional circles of 
Northampton ana adjoining counties. 
Senator Laubach, pfter receiving such 
education as the common schools afforded , 
attended the Allentown Seminary and Military Institute (now Muhlen- 
berg College) from 1862 to 1864. He attended Franklin and Marshall 
College, Lancaster, Pa., during the years 1S67, 1868 and 1869. The death 
of his father, who was extensively engaged in mercantile and milling busi- 
ness, and the reluctance of the appointed executors to assume the manage- 
ment thereof, compelled him to relinquish further pursuits of his studies and 
devote his energies to the development of the estate. Besides giving close 
attention to the welfare of the estate, he is connected with a number of cor- 
porate interests in the capacity of manager or officer. With the exception of 
Director of Schools in his native township, he never held any political office 
until elected in November, 1890, to represent the Eighteenth District, com- 
posed of the county of Northampton, in the Pennsylvania Senate, and in 1894 
was re-elected. While not holding office other than the above mentioned, 
he has given years to the service to his party, being just of age when elected 
a member of the Northampton County Committee, which place he has held 
continuously since, with the exception of two years. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Democratic State Committee many years and often been delegate 
to State Conventions, in which he has several times been chairman of com- 
mittees. He has been several years chairman of the Democratic Committee of 
his county. In 1895 Mr. Laubach was a member of the Committee on 
Congressional Apportionment, Canals and Inland Navigation, Compare 
Bills, Education, Federal Relations, Railroads and Retrenchment and 
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TAMES C. VAUGHAN, of the Twen- 
| tieth District, composed of parts of 
Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, 
was born in Scranton, July 20, i860. He 
was graduated from the high school of that 
city in 1877, after which he taught school, 
continuing in the profession for many 
years. While he was engaged in teach- 
ing he devoted his spare moments to the 
study of law in the office of ex- Lieutenant 
Governor Watres. In 1892 he was ad- 
mitted to practice at the bar of Lacka- 
wanna County, since which time he has 
applied himself closely to that profession. 
Being of Irish descent Mr. Vaughan has 
been enlisted in all movements looking to 
the amelioration of the condition of the 
people of Ireland. When but a boy he 
was an enthusiastic worker in the old Land League and has frequently been 
elected to represent it in the National Councils of Irishmen in America. As 
Captain of the Phil. Sheridan Rifles he is well and favorably known in mili- 
tary circles. Mr. Vaughan has been actively engaged in movements for the 
promotion of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors. In 1888 and 1889 
he was president of the Diocesan Total Abstinence Union, of Scranton, com- 
posed of more than eight thousand members, a position which he filled 
with credit and ability. In 189411c was selected by his party to wrest 
the Twentieth Senatorial District from the Democrats. He had for his oppo- 
nent ex-Senator McDonald, who had been elected in 1890 by a majority of 
nearly 2,000. An energetic fight was conducted by both candidates, and Mr. 
Vaughan was elected by 3,963 plurality. As a Senator he availed him- 
self of every opportunity to master the details of legislation, and at its close 
had fully equipped himself for future legislative duties. He served on the 
important Committees on Finance, Judiciary General and Judiciary Special, 
and was also a member of the Committees on Accounts, Congressional Appor- 
tionment, Constitutional Reform, Education, Legislative Apportionment and 
Printing:. 




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JOHN PETER SHINDEL GOBIN, 
| the Senator from Lebanon, who was 
President pro tern, of the Senate of 
1893, was born at Sunbury, January 26, 
1837. His father was Samuel Gobin, 
the best wagon builder in Sunbury, and 
his mother, Susan Shindel, the daughter 
of Rev. John Peter Shindel, a noted 
Lutheran divine of the same town. In 
Sunbury Mr. Gobin attended school, and 
his last preceptor was ex-Senator Peale. 
Having learned the printer's trade on the 
Sunbury American he started the Phila- 
delphia Stat of Youth, an organ of the 
Junior Sons. The venture proving 
unsuccessful he returned to Sunbury, 
taught school and studied law with Gen. 
John K. Clement and M. L. Shindel. In 
1859 he wa * admitted to the bar. At the outbreak of the Civil War he 
entered it as First Lieutenant of Company F, Eleventh Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, He became Captain of Company C, of the Forty-seventh 
Pennsylvania, and Major and Colonel of the same regiment. He was with 
Sheridan in July, 1S64, and commanded the Forty -seventh at Cedar Creek. 
At one stage of that battle he commanded the entire brigade. During a 
portion of the war he was Judge Advocate General of the South and in 1867 
declined the United States District Judgeship for the Southern District oi 
Florida, tendered him by General Grant. He served throughout the war, 
was brevetted Brigadier General and appointed Provost Judge at Charleston. 
Ever since then he has resided in Lebanon. He assisted in organizing the 
Grand Army of the Republic and in 1886 was elected Grand Commander. 
He has served as trustee of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Erie, as 
Commissioner of the Soldiers' Orphans Schools, and as Commissioner of the 
Gettysburg Monument Association. At the transfer of the Pennsylvania 
monuments at Gettysburg to the Governor, General Gobin delivered the 
oration. He is an active member of the Loyal Legion and the Sons of the 
Revolution. In 1879 he became Grand Commander of the Knights Templar 
of Pennsylvania; in 1880, Grand Captain General of the Grand Encampment 
of the United States; in 1883, Grand Generalissimo; in 1886. Deputy Grand 
Commander, and at the Washington Conclave, Grand Master of the United 
States. In Odd Fellowship he is a Past Grand Patriarch of the State. He 
has always been a staunch Republican, and cast his first ballot for Lincoln. 
He has been a State Senator continuously since 1884 and has served on all 
important committees. In 1871 he recruited the Coleman Guards at 
Lebanon. In 1874 he was elected Colonel of the Eighth Regiment. On 
June 1, 1885, Governor Pattison appointed him Brigadier General of the 
Third Brigade, which position he yet fills. He originated the massing and 
encampment of State troops at Mt. Gretna in 1885. From comparative 
obscurity he has risen to eminence and honor as citizen, soldier and 
statesman . 



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HENRY COCHRAN, of Lycoming 
County, who represents the Twenty- 
fourth District, composed of the 
Counties of Lycoming, Columbia, Mon- 
tour and Sullivan, was born in New 
Brunswick, January 15, 1845. His 
parents soon after removed to Calais, 
Maine, where he resided until, at the age 
of eighteen years, he came to Pennsyl- 
vania. He received a common school 
education and has constantly been 
engaged in the business of lumbering. 
In recent years he has also been con- 
nected with banking and industrial enter- 
prises other than those of lumbering. 
Mr. Cochran was nominated by the 
Democrats of the Twenty-fourth District 
for Senator and at the subsequent election 
was chosen by a plurality of 2,350 to represent it in the Senate. He was a 
member of the Committees on Appropriations, Corporations, Finance, 
Insurance, Judicial Apportionment, Legislative Apportionment, New 
Counties and County Seats, Municipal Affairs and Railroads. 




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OHN J. COYLE was born at Mill 

Creek, Norwegian Township, Schuyl- 

^j^JJ^^fc^ kill Count}', on the Loth day of No vein - 

^r^"^^^^Q^ ber, [863. His father was a miner in the 

coal mines of that region, and John, like 
all other boys raised in the anthracite coal 
regions, commenced his career as a slate 
picker in the coal breaker. When there 
was an opportunity he went to the public 
schools, and being of a bright mind made 
rapid progress as a boy, so that at the age 
of fifteen years he was granted a certifi- 
cate, and at sixteen commenced to teach 
in the public schools of Mahanoy Town- 
ship. After having taught there for four 
years he went to Luzerne County and be- 
came a teacher in one of the schools in 
Foster Township, a few miles northeast 
of Hazleton, where he served for three years. Returning again to Mahanoy 
City, in Schuylkill County, he started in the insurance business and had not 
lung been in it when he was appointed by Governor Beaver a Justice of the 
P-aee of the First Ward. The following year he was elected to the same 
office, after a bitter contest, by a majority of 23, notwithstanding the fact 
tnat the ward usually gave a Democratic majority of more than 150. Mr. 
Coyle has always been an active Republican in Schuylkill County and re- 
garded as one of its leaders, his voice being heard in every council that had 
fur its object the good of his party. He was nominated by the Republicans 
of his Senatorial district in 1S91 as a delegate to the proposed Constitutional 
Convention and was elected, but the holding of the convention was defeated by 
the voice of the people. Mr. Coyle is very popular with his people, having been 
elected to the House by a majority of 204 votes in a district that gave Cleve- 
land, the Democratic nominee for President, a majority of 751, and besides 
Mr. Coyle had running against him an Independent Republican candidate, 
who got 457 votes in the same district. At the session of the House in 1893 
Mr. Coyle served on Committees on Insurance, Elections, Coal and Iron, 
City Passenger Railways, Municipal Corporations, and was secretary of the lat- 
ter committee, an honor which is rarely conferred on a new member. In 1 894 
he was elected by 701 majority to the Senate in a strong Democratic district, 
defeating ex-Senator Charles F. King. At the session of 1895 Mr. Coyle was 
chairman of the Committee on Centennial Affairs and also a member of the 
Committees on Appropriations, Banks, Insurance, Library, Public Buildings, 
Public Printing and Retrenchment and Reform. He introduced a number of 
important bills, including that to create an Orphans' Court Judge in Schuyl- 
kill County, which has become a law, and under which T. H. B. Lyon, 
of Mahonoy City, was appointed. He also read in place a bill to create 
a State Mining Department. 



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NORMAN BRUCE CRITCHFIELD, 
of Somerset County, who represents 
the Thirty-sixth District in the State 
Senate, was born in Somerset County, 
Pa., July 20, 1838. His great-great-grand- 
father came from Wales about the middle 
of the eighteenth century, and settled in 
New Jersey. At the close of the War for 
Independence, in which he served, his 
great-grandfather went to Virginia, where 
he married and soon afterward took up 
his residence in Somerset County, Pa. 
His great-grandfather, grandfather and 
father were farmers, and Senator Critch- 
field also follows that avocation. His 
earlv education was obtained in the 
public and normal schools of Somerset 
County. In 1856 he entered the Ohio 
University at Athens, Ohio, and the following spring returned to his native 
county and spent the summer in a private school. He taught school for a 
number of years and was Superintendent of Schools in Somerset County 
from 1866 to 1869. From 1885 to 1889 he was Prothonotary of Common 
Pleas and Clerk of Criminal Courts of his county, and in 1890 was elected 
to the Senate from his district, consisting of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton 
Counties, by a plurality of nearly 1,700. At the session of 1893 he was 
made chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, and was given a place on 
the Appropriations and Health and Sanitation Committees. He introduced 
bills to make the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture ex -officio a 
member of the board and to prevent the spread of the disease known as 
tuberculosis among domestic animals. What is known as the agricultural 
delegation of the Legislature, consisting of about one hundred members, 
elected him its secretary. In July, 1893, he was appointed by the National 
Commissioners of the World's Columbian Exposition a member of the 
Board of Judges in the Department of Agriculture. He was elected vice- 
president and during the last two months of the board's service he served as 
chairman of that body. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1894 and during 
the first session of his second term was continued in the chairmanship of the 
Committee on Agriculture and served on the same Committees on which he 
served during the session of 1893 with the Committee on Congressional 
Apportionment added. Senator Critchfield has not only a civil record of 
which he may feel proud but he performed creditable service in the War of 
the Rebellion. He served three years in the Union Army and participated 
in the coast campaigns in East Virginia and South Carolina and in 
Sherman's famous campaign which culminated in the capture of Atlanta 
and Savannah. He also served with General Sherman in his march through 
the Carolinas and Virginia, ending at Washington, at the close of the war. 



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\ LFRED W. MILXEISEN, who rep- 
i\ resents the Cumberland -Adams Dis- 
trict in the Senate, was born August 7, 
1853. He acquired a rudimentary edu- 
cation in the common schools of his native 
town and finished his school life in the 
Cumberland Valley Institute, which then 
was one of the best educational institu- 
tions in the State. After the completion 
of his school course he learned the ' ' Art 
Preservative of all Arts, ' ' and later on was 
honored with the appointment of business 
manager of the Thomas Printing House 
and local editor of The Independent-Jour- 
nal. He gave great satisfaction in those 
positions, but having determined in 1878 
to enter the hardware business he reluct- 
antly abandoned newspaper work. Since 
that time he has successfully prosecuted the former business in Mechanics- 
burg. In 1894 ne was commanded by the Republican Party of the Cumber- 
land-Adams District to lead what was supposed to be a forlorn hope. He 
was not a candidate for Senator but, after having been nominated, conducted 
an active and systematic campaign and was elected by a plurality of 773, 
while Mr. Eloyd, Democrat, four years before received a plurality of about 
2,300 in the same district. His great triumph was largely due to his com- 
panionable qualities, which he brought with him to the Senate, where no 
man enjoys a wider popularity. While Senator Milleisen consumes very little 
time in debate he exhibits many evidences of fitness for the position to which 
his constituents elected him. He served on the Committees on Agriculture, 
Banks, Canals and Inland Navigation, Centennial Affairs, Library, Muni- 
cipal Affairs, Public Health and Sanitation and chairman of the Committee 
on Game and Fisheries. 




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CHARLES M. SHORTT, who repre- 
sents the Forty-eighth District, com- 
posed of the counties of Warren and 
Venango, was born at Youngsville, War- 
ren County, Pa., March 10, 1850. Senator 
.-*| ^^ Shortt's father, William Hamilton Shortt, 

l? was born June 23, 1822, in Lockerbie, 

Scotland. In 18 3 3 he removed to Warren 
County from the old country. He was 
originally a Democrat but cast his last 
vote with that party for Buchanan in 1856 . 
In 1 87 2 and 1873 he was elected to the 
State Legislature as a Republican and 
during the administration of President 
Grant was appointed Consul to Cardiff, 
Wales, and adjacent ports. Representa- 
tive Shortt was educated in the public 
and State Normal schools and followed 
the mercantile business until 1877, when he was chosen cashier of the 
Sugar Grove Savings Bank, a position he still retains. In 1S80 he repre- 
sented the Republican Party of his district as an alternate at the Republican 
National Convention. He served in the House of 1883-84 and was elected 
to the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1894 by a plurality of 4,172. At the 
session of 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions and a member 
of the Committees on Appropriations, Corporations, Agriculture, Con- 
gressional Apportionment and Judiciary Local. 




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\\7 H. HYDE, of Elk County, the 
\ V . Senator from the Thirty-eighth 
District, composed of Elk, Cameron and 
Forest Counties, was born in Ridgway, 
May 27, 1849. He attended the Ridg- 
way public schools until i860 and from 
that time until 1865 those of Painesville, 
Ohio. He also had the benefit of one 
term's schooling in the Eewisburg Uni- 
versity. When eighteen years old Mr. 
Hyde entered the lumber and mercantile 
business at Ridgway, in which he has 
been actively engaged ever since. He is 
president of the Clarion River Railway 
Company, Clarion River Gas Company 
and the Ridgway Eight and Heat Com- 
pany. He is also largely interested in 
the banking business at Ridgway and 
Brockwayville. On November 7, 1893, he was elected to fill the unexpired 
term of Harry Alvan Hall, resigned. On November 6, 1894, he was re- 
elected, although the district he represents was carried by General Hastings 
for Governor. Mr. Hyde's great popularity at home was shown in his 
county in the large vote he received from the Republican opposition. 
While Hastings was beaten only 74 votes he had a plurality of 764. At the 
session of 1895 Mr. Hyde was a member of the Committees on Banks, 
Finance, Insurance, Judicial Apportionment, Legislative Apportionment, 
Mines and Mining, Public Printing, Constitutional Reform and Retrench- 
ment and Reform. 





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LUTHER RILEY REEFER, of the 
Twenty-ninth District, who is now 
/*^* (1895) serving his fifth term as a State 

f ^ Senator, was born March 5, 1834, at 

/ Harrisburg. His father, Andrew Reefer, 

a descendant of the French Huguenots, 
was a cabinetmaker and merchant at 
Harrisburg until 1847, when he moved 
to Schuylkill Haven. He attended the 
public schools of his native city, and in 
his new home, after removing to Schuyl- 
kill Haven, he was admitted to the 
higher classes of the public schools of 
that place. He pursued an academic 
course in a private school at Schuylkill 
Haven after he had completed the course 
at that time taught in the public schools. 
In 1849 he was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of a foundryman at the Colebrookdale Iron Works, in Berks County. 
After an apprenticeship of four years Mr. Reefer, in 1853, returned to his 
home and soon afterwards established a foundry and machine shop, with his 
brother, John B., at West Haven, now Cressona, Schuylkill County, Pa., 
and carried on this business very successfully until 1875, when he withdrew 
from active manufacturing business. From his earliest manhood Mr. Reefer 
was an enterprising and progressive citizen, and his neighbors held him in 
the highest esteem. He was called upon to serve the community in which 
he resided in various capacities and was in turn elected a member of 
Councils, Burgess and School Director. In 1862 and 1863 he was Enrolling 
Officer for the United States Government in his district. When the Rebel 
forces invaded Pennsylvania in 1863 he enlisted for the emergency campaign, 
in Company A, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He 
was subsequently appointed Deputy United States Marshal for the Four- 
teenth Sub-District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Reefer is not an orator in the 
common acceptation of the term, though he is one of the most industrious 
and successful legislators in the body of which he is a member, and has 
served on the Senate Committee on Railroads as its chairman for fourteen 
years. At the session of 1895 he was also on the Committees on Finance, 
Appropriations, Legislative Apportionment, Mines and Mining and Elections. 
In 1880 he served on the special committee to examine into the alleged 
misappropriation of money by the State Treasurer, and in 1SS8 was on the 
special committee to draft a general revenue bill. Senator Reefer is a genial 
companion and very popular. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of 
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, a member of the Board of Trustees at 
the Rutztown Normal School and takes great interest in educational affairs. 



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HENRY D. GREEX represents Berks 
County, or the Eleventh Senatorial 
District. He is serving his second term 
of four years in the Senate, and had pre- 
viously served in the lower House from 
1883 to 1887 as a Representative of Read- 
ing. In 1892 he was re-elected by 8,454 
majority for a term of four years. He 
was born on May 3, 1857, in Reading, 
and has continued to reside in that place 
ever since. He attended the public 
schools in his native city, and graduated 
from its high school in 1872 and after a 
year spent in preparatory study entered 
the academic department of Yale College 
in the fall of 1873, where he graduated 
with the class of 1877, receiving the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. After grad- 
uation he studied law in the office of his father, an old practitioner, and one 
of the leading lawyers of that county, and was admitted to practice on 
November 10, 1879. Subsequently, on February 27, he was admitted to 
practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Since that time he has 
continued in active practice, interrupted only by his public duties. He has 
been actively interested in the success and prosperity of Reading and is 
president of the Reading Real Estate Exchange, which company holds large 
real estate interests in that vicinity. Senator Green comes from one of the 
oldest and most respected families of Berks county, his great-grandfather, 
William Green, having settled in Maxatawney Township, that county, in 
1760, and carried on a mercantile business there. He was Burgess of Read- 
ing in 1788 and Assessor in 1792. His grandfather, William Green, was 
born in Maiden Creek Township, that county, in 1777, and in 181 1 was elected 
Sheriff of Schuylkill County, which was then cut off of Berks. John Green, 
his grandfather, was born in Orwigsburg, then in Berks County, in 1800, and 
was Recorder of Deeds and also Register of the County of Berks. His 
father, Albert G. Green, was born in Reading, where he scill resides, and 
continues to practice law. Senator Green has been on the Committees on 
Judiciary General, Special and Local, Municipal Affairs, Appropriations and 
Game and Fish. In 1891 he was the Democratic caucus nominee for Presi- 
dent pro tempore of the Senate, and at Governor Pattison's last inauguration 
was the chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. Mr. Green secured the 
passage of the act to secure a separate Orphans' Court in Berks County and 
engineered through both houses the new Registration Act. He was also on 
the conference committee which reported finally the Baker Ballot Reform 
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'LARENCE W. KLINE, who repre 
sents the Twenty-first District, was 
born near Jersey town, Columbia County, 
Pa., October 25, 1852. He is descended 
from Daniel Kline, who emigrated from 
Germany to America and settled at Ger- 
mantown, Pa., in 1741. His son was a 
soldier in the Revolution. The grand- 
father of the Senator served in the war of 
1812, and his father went out with the 
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•gj^* % W^b a Ser * eant and returned as a First Lieu- 

tenant and brevet Captain. Senator 
Kline was educated in the common 
schools of Lancaster County. At the 
early age of fourteen years he returned to 
his native county and applied for a school 
in Anthony Township, Montour County. 
He passed a successful examination and was appointed to teach the Derrv 
school. In 1869 he went to Luzerne County and two years later was ap- 
pointed principal of the Jeanesville school and began to read law. He was 
admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Hazleton, June 1, 1877, 
and has been practicing there since. He was a delegate to Republican State 
Conventions in 1S76 and 1878. Has been a member of the School Board 
and Town Council of Hazleton and has frequently been chairman and sec- 
retary of the Fourth Legislative District Committee of his County. He was 
nominated by the Republicans of the Twenty-first Senatorial District, his 
opponent being J. Ridgway Wright, of Wilkes-Barre, a popular Democrat, 
and while Grover Cleveland carried this Senatorial district by over 1,500 
majority, Mr. Kline was elected by a majority of 67. In 1895 Mr. Kline 
was chairman of the Committee on New Counties and County Seats and also 
a member of the Committees on Judiciary General, Judiciary Local, Legis- 
lative Apportionment, Compare Bills, Public Health and Sanitation and 
Public Buildings. At the same session he introduced a number of important 
bills, including that to make a new county out of Luzerne and Schuylkill, 
which passed the Senate with scarcely any opposition. 




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WILLIAM HOOD HACKENBERG, 
» ' of Milton, Northumberland County r 
who represents the Twenty-seventh Dis- 
trict, was born May 14, 1859, and edu- 
cated in the public schools. He learned 
the printer's trade and afterwards began 
the study of the law, being admitted to 
the bar of Northumberland County in 
February, 18S1 . He was a Justice of the 
Peace at Milton from May 1, 1 881, to 
September 18, 1884, when he resigned. 
During the years 1884 and 1885 he was- 
Chief Burgess of the borough of Milton. 
Mr. Hackenberg was a delegate to the 
State Republican Convention of 1886, by 
which General Beaver was nominated 
for Governor, and of the convention that 
four \ears later nominated ex-Senator 
Delamater lor the same honor. In 1891 he was a candidate for the Repub- 
lican nomination for President Judge of Northumberland County, and went 
into the convention with more than one-third of the delegates, made a hard 
fight and was defeated by a narrow majority. He was elected a member of 
the Senate in 1892. Recognizing his ability as a lawyer, President pro 
tempore Gobin, at the organization of the Senate in 1893, appointed Mr. 
Hackenberg chairman of the Committee on Judicial Apportionment, a 
position he satisfactorily filled. He is an eloquent and logical talker, a 
ready debater and a lawyer of great promise. Mr. Hackenberg takes a 
prominent part in the councils of his party in the Senatorial district which 
he has the honor to represent and is one of the party leaders in the Senate. 
In 1895 Mr. Hackenberg was chairman of the Committee on Library and 
also a member of the Committees on Judiciary General, Judiciary Local, 
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T A FAYETTE ROWLAND, who rep- 
lv resents 



Carbon, Monroe and Pike 
Counties in the Senate, was born in 
Lackawaxen Township, Pike County, 
January 16, 1837. After receiving the 
educational advantages which the com- 
mon schools at that early date afforded 
Mr. Rowland entered the Fort Edward 
Institute, Washington County, New York, 
situated along the Hudson river. While 
in this school, between 1859 and i860, 
he was obliged to return to Pike County 
to take charge of the business of his 
In-other, George H. Rowland, because 
the latter had been elected a member of 
the Pennsylvania House of Representa- 
tives. Senator Rowland held but one 
county office, that of Treasurer of Pike 
County in 1874 and 1875. Between the years 1870 and 1880 he filled the 
office of Census Enumerator in his district. At the sessions of the Legisla- 
ture in 1889 and [891 Mr. Rowland represented Pike County in the House. 
His paternal ancestors came from the north of Ireland, near the Scotch 
line, and his grandfather, Garradus Rowland, located in Saratoga County, 
New York. No senatorial district felt the effect of the Republican ground- 
swell more sensibly than that represented by Senator Rowland, but he 
carried it by 1,137. Mr - Rowland was appointed a member of the Norris- 
town-Wernersville Investigating Committee and served on the Committees 
on Agriculture, Education, Game and Fisheries, Public Health and Sanita- 
tion, Accounts and Library. 



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ENRY D. SAYLOR, who repre- 
sents the Twelfth District, composed 
of Montgomery County, was born in 
Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa., 
October 22, 1857. He was educated in 
the common schools of his native town 
and was graduated from the high school 
in the same place. He read law with 
Thomas J. Ashton, Esq., and E. Coppee 
Mitchell, Esq., of Philadelphia, and in 
1892 was graduated from the Law 
Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and in the same year admitted to 
practice at the Philadelphia bar. In 1 883 
he became a member of the Montgomery 
County bar and since then has been in 
active practice. He served two terms of 
three years each, from 1885 to 1891, as a 
member of the Town Council of the borough of Pottstown and three terms 
of one vear each was Solicitor thereof, including 1891, 1892 and 1893. In 
1894 he was elected to the State Senate, polling 14,098 votes to 11,099 
received by Dr. Markley, who had represented the Montgomery District in 
that body the previous term. Mr. Saylor served on the Committees on 
Judiciary General and Eocal, Judicial Apportionment, Insurance, Railroads, 
Yice and Immorality, Appropriations, Education, Game and Fisheries and 
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WILLIAM BOLING MEREDITH, 
of the Forty-first District, was born 
in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Sep- 
tember 13, 1839. His father, Jonathan 
E. Meredith, was a civil engineer and 
surveyor by profession, and was three 
times elected Prothonotary of Armstrong 
County on the Whig ticket while that 
county was strongly Democratic. He 
was also elected to the Senate of Penn- 
sylvania in r859 from the district com- 
posed of the counties of Armstrong and 
Indiana. The subject of this sketch was 
educated in the public schools of Kittan- 
ning. Elder's Ridge Academy, and Jef- 
ferson College, at Cannonsburg, Wash- 
ington County, Pa., graduating from the 
last named institution in August, i860. 
Mr. Meredith was connected with the oil business for a number of years and 
since that time he has been engaged extensively in water works enterprises, 
being at present superintendent and treasurer of the Armstrong Water 
Company and superintendent of the Butler and Warren Water Companies- 
Mr. Meredith served as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for several 
years. He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1878 and 
was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate from the Forty-first Senatorial Dis- 
trict, composed of the counties of Armstrong and Butler, in 1884, for the term 
of four years, and was re-elected from the same district in November, 1892. 
In 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Congressional Appor- 
tionment and also a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Federal 
Relations, Pensions and Gratuities, Public Printing and Vice and Im- 
morality. Mr. Meredith has made an enviable record in the Senate and is 
held in high esteem both by his fellow Senators and his fellow citizens at 
home. His extensive private business has thoroughly qualified him for the 
able discharge of his public duties. 




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JESSE MATLACK BAKER, Senator 
I from Delaware County, is of Quaker 
ancestry, and was born March i, 1854, at 
Parkesburg, Chester County. His father 
is a farmer. His early education was had 
in the public schools, from which he en- 
tered the Pennsylvania Military Academy. 
He became a cadet at the West Point Mili- 
tary Academy in June, 1871, from which 
institution he was honorably discharged 
in June, 1873. The next year he began 
to teach school and followed that avoca- 
tion until 1879. Beginning the study of 
law, he was admitted to the bar of Dela- 
ware County in 1881 and to practice in 
the Supreme Court in 1884. He served 
as District Attorney for Delaware County 
from 1882 to 1888 and won his spurs by 
his able conduct of the prosecution in the celebrated Sharpless murder trial. 
Elected to the House of Representatives in 1888, and re-elected in 1890, he 
soon took rank as a legislator, and impressed his name upon the election laws 
of the State by introducing and pressing to final passage the Baker ballot 
law. No more important measure to the voters of the State has been passed 
in late years, and Mr. Baker has been accorded a deserved popularity for his 
labors in its enactment, as well as for the amendments aimed to perfect it. 
In 1892 he was elected to the Senate, where his active disposition found a 
congenial field, and many of the most important measures presented were 
framed and introduced by him. He was chairman of the Military Committee, 
and member of the Committees on Judiciary General and Special, Insurance 
and Mines and Mining. Senator Baker's early military training left its im- 
press upon his character, and on February 5, 1877, ^ ie enlisted as a private 
in Company G, Eleventh Regiment, N. G. P. — now Company H, Sixth Regi- 
ment — and was rapidly promoted to a second and first lieutenancy and be- 
came captain of the company on October 22, 1878. His commission expiring 
October 22, 1883, he again enlisted as a private one month later and was made 
quartermaster of the Sixth Regiment May 24, 1886. His commission expired 
September 14, 1889. On June 17, 1892, he became captain of Company H, 
Sixth Regiment, and now holds that position. Mr. Baker takes rank among 
the most influential of the new Senators, and has shown himself a 
valuable acquisition to the higher branch of the Legislature. He is a forci- 
ble and ready debater, a good parliamentarian, and a Senator whose close 
watch upon all matters of legislation keeps him always prepared to intelli- 
gently discuss any measures that come up for action in the Senate. 



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RTHUR KENNEDY, of the Forty- 
second District, represented at the 
session of 1893 by the late Senator Neeb 
and Lieutenant Governor Lyon, was 
born in Allegheny City, Allegheny 
County, Pa., June 4, 1856. He was 
educated in the public and private schools. 
On March 22, 1S84, he was admitted to 
the bar of Allegheny County. He is an 
active Republican and has represented 
his party in County, State and National 
Conventions. He became a member of 
the Common Council of Allegheny City 
April 1, 1S85, and served continuously 
in that body until April 1, 1893, when 
he entered Select Council. He was pres- 
ident of that body when elected to the 
Senate of Pennsylvania. His majority 
in 1894 was 6,882 in a small vote. Mr. Kennedy at the last session was 
prominently connected with important legislation. He took an especially 
active part in the fight to defeat the bill proposing to annex Allegheny City 
to Pittsburg without allowing the people of his city to decide whether they 
would accept or reject annexation, and he had the satisfaction of obtaining 
the concession for which he contended by having a bill drafted giving his 
constituents this right. He served on the Committees on Judiciary General, 
Judiciary Special, Municipal Affairs, Insurance, Constitutional Reform, 
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T OHN UPPERMAN, who has repre- 
j the Forty-third District, composed of 
part of the county of Allegheny, since 
1 88 1, is a native of the city of Pittsburg, 
where he was born, May 13, 1845. He 
received his education in the common 
schools and Shafer Business College, and 
then learned the tanner's trade. Subse- 
quently he engaged in the livery business- 
in Pittsburg, and has since followed that 
occupation. Senator Upperman's first 
entrance into public life was in 1877, 
when he served a term in the City 
Councils of Pittsburg. In 1880 he was 
elected to the Senate, and has been thrice 
re-elected — in 1884, 1888 and 1892. In 
1883 Senator Upperman served as chair- 
man of the Committee on Municipal 
Corporations, and for the past three sessions has held the responsible 
position of chairman of the Corporations Committee. The important 
character of the legislation passing through this committee renders the 
chairmanship an onerous and laborious place, and Senator Upperman's 
discharge of his duties in connection therewith has been marked by a most 
careful and painstaking interest and attention. In 1895 he was also 
a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Education and Con- 
gressional Apportionment. Senator Upperman seldom occupies the time of 
the Senate with debate, but, faithful in his attendance at every session, his 
knowledge of all pending measures gives weight to his words when he does 
take brief part in the discussions, and his vote is given as the result of 
careful consideration of the merits of every measure. His extended term of 
service has given him a large acquaintance among public men of all parties, 
and he is deservedly popular among those brought into immediate relation 
with him. 







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7ILLIAM FUNN, who represents 
the Forty-fourth Senatorial District , 
consisting of a portion of Allegheny 
County, as a Republican, was born May 
26, 185 1, at Manchester, England. His 
father and mother, who were born in Ire- 
land, emigrated to this country in the 
year of his birth and settled in Pittsburg. 
He attended the common schools until he 
was nine years of age, worked at different 
vocations and learned the trade of brass 
finisher and gas and steam fitter. He is 
one of the most extensive contractors in 
the State. Mr. Flinn has figured con- 
spicuously in the politics of Allegheny 
County, and was a delegate to the Na- 
tional Conventions of his party in 1884, 
1888 and 1892, and served in a similar 
capacity in State Conventions for the past fifteen years. He was a member 
of the House of Representatives at the sessions of 1879 and 1881. In 
1877 he was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners of Pittsburg and 
served three years. He has been chairman of the Republican City Executive 
Committee of Pittsburg for the past twelve years, in 1S90 was chosen to rep- 
resent his district in the Senate for four years and in 1894 was re-elected by a 
plurality of 14,214. He was re-appointed chairman of the Senate Commit- 
tee on Education and was a member of the following Committees : Agricul- 
ture, Congressional Apportionment, Legislative Apportionment, Municipal 
Affairs, Railroads and Vice and Immorality. 




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SAMUEL S. STEEL, of Allegheny 
County, who represents the Forty- 
fifth District in the Senate, was born near 
Greeneastle, Franklin County, April 20, 



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education and learned the trade of ma- 
chine blacksmithing, at which he worked 
until he entered the Union Army. After 
the close of the war he was for a while 
engaged in the undertaking business and 
in raising dairy produce. In 1884 he 
was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate 
and has twice been re-elected, his present 
term expiring in 1896. Mr. Steel is one 
of the most popular men in the branch 
of the Legislature with which he has 
been connected for the past ten years, 
and his constituents have been faithfully 
served by him. He has not occupied the time of the Senate in speech-making 
except when occasion imperatively demands, but he has done good work 
in committee. He was the chairman of the Committee on Insurance in 
1893 and 1895 and served on the Committee on Finance and other important 
Committees. Mr. Steel is descended from Pennsylvania ancestors, all of whom 
have been residents of the State, covering a period of over one hundred and 
fifty years. On his paternal side he is descended from Rev. John Steel, of 
the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. At the breaking out of the Revo- 
lutionary War John Steel was made captain of the first company raised in 
Carlisle for the defense of the Colonies. At that time, among the members 
■of his church, were Colonel Ephraim Blaine, grandfather of James G. Blaine, 
Colonel Irwin, Colonel Callendar, General Armstrong and James Wilson, a 
signer of the Declaration of Independence, and General John Montgomery. 
On his maternal side he is descended from the Deitrichs and Stotlers, old 
German families of Franklin County, both of which furnished officers and 
privates to the Revolutionary War. 






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HENRY F. WAI/TON, the popular 
young presiding officer of the 
House, is one of the Representatives 
from the Twenty-seventh District, Phila- 
delphia. He was born in Stroudsburg, 
Monroe County, Pa., October 2, 1858, 
and removed to Philadelphia with his 
parents the following year. After hav- 
ing been educated in the public schools 
and by private tutors he entered the law 
office of Hon. Wayne MacVeagh and 
George Tucker Bispham, Esq., and was- 
ohortly afterward appointed Assistant 
Librarian of the Law Library by Mr. 
Bispham. In 1876 he was registered as 
law student under that gentleman, and 
in the meantime was a prominent mem- 
ber and officer of the Law Academy. 
Two days after his twenty-first birthday, October 4, 1879, he was admitted 
to the bar and immediately entered the law office of Francis Rawle, Esq. 
In April, 1884, when Charles F. Warwick became City Solicitor of Phila- 
delphia, that gentleman, in recognition of Mr. Walton's abilities, appointed 
him as one of his assistants and retained his services until he was elected a 
member of the Legislature. For sixteen years Mr. Walton has been one of 
the most popular and progressive residents of the Twenty-eighth and Thirty- 
second Wards, Philadelphia, an active worker in the Republican ranks and 
has performed yeoman service therein. Before he attained his majority 
he made a brilliant address in favor of James A. Garfield's candidacy for 
President. In November, 1890, Mr. Walton was elected to the House 
from the Twenty-seventh District. He was re-elected in 1892 and was the choice 
of the Philadelphia delegation for Speaker. Mr. Walton's candidacy 
for this position challenged the admiration of all who knew him and many 
of his colleagues were pledged to his support. On the day of the Republican 
caucus he withdrew his name as a candidate and placed Representative 
Thompson in nomination for Speaker. In 1893 he was appointed Chairman 
of the Judiciary General Committee and served on other important Commit- 
tees. He made such an excellent record in the Legislature that his selection 
for presiding officer of the House followed naturally, and on January 1 , 1895, 
he became the successor of Speaker Thompson without opposition, all candi- 
dates for the position having withdrawn before the meeting of the Republican 
caucus. He is a member of the Union League and President of the Five 
O'clock Club, a prominent and influential member of several fraternal 
and political organizations in Philadelphia and is always found doing battle 
for his party in important campaigns. Mr. Walton was married in 1882 to 
Ella G. Norman, of Baltimore, and his family consists of his wife and four 
daughters. 



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S. STAPLES, who represents the 
Sixth District of Luzerne County, 
was born in Stroudsburg, Monroe 
County, March 7, 1859. After receiv- 
ing a common school education and 
instructions from a private tutor he 
attended the seminary at Claverack, 
New York State, and the Wyoming 
Seminary at Kingston, Luzerne County. 
During the greenback craze of 1S78, he, 
in connection with his father, R. S. 
Staples, conducted the Monroe Demo- 
crat, on true Democratic principles, not 
withstanding the inroads the Green- 
backers were making on the organiza- 
tion of that party. After a journalistic 
experience of about a year young 
Staples removed to Trenton, New Jersey, 
where he held the position of Superintendent of the Trenton China Works 
for four years, and subsequently, in 1885, he purchased the plant of the 
Luzerne Ochre Manufacturing Company, located at Moosehead, and is fur- 
nishing material to about four-fifths of the oil-cloth manufacturers in the 
country. Mr. Staples was Burgess of White Haven, where he resides, two 
years, and before he was elected to the Legislature filled the position of 
Postmaster at Moosehead, having been appointed under Cleveland's first 
national administration. This office he resigned to assume the duties of 
member of the House. His election was a great triumph in view of the 
demoralized condition of the Democratic Party and the fact that he had to 
contend against the candidacy of an Independent Democrat. As Mr. 
Staples and Speaker Walton were intimate friends in their youth, the latter 
honored his companion with appointment as a member of the Committee 
on Rules, with which the Speaker is connected by reason of his office. This 
committee fixes the order in which legislation shall be considered, when 
such action is necessary, and makes provision for additional sessions to 
expedite business. Mr. Staples also served on the Committees on Railroads, 
Mines and Mining, Insurance, Congressional Apportionment and Corpora- 
tions. He took a very prominent part in the fight against the proposed new 
county of Quay and gave it a staggering blow by offering an amendment to 
the bill providing for its creation by which twenty-three of the sixty-seven 
counties in the State would have been affected by it. Mr. Staples' father 
represented Carbon and Monroe in the House in 1873, those two counties 
then forming a district. 



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pLARK T. BALDWIN, of Fayette 
V_/ County, was born in Brownsville, 
that county, October 12, 1S51. After 
attending the public schools for several 
years he clerked in dry goods, hardware 
and other stores in his neighborhood. 
He resides in Bridgeport Borough, ad- 
joining Brownsville, and was Chief Bur- 
gess of his town for four terms, Justice of 
the Peace for five years, and held other 
minor offices. At the age of fifteen years 
he began taking a keen interest in pol- 
itics and has served on the Republican 
Committee of his county for thirteen 
years. He was United States Storekeeper 
under President Harrison's administra- 
tion and was a delegate to the Republi- 
can State Conventions which nominated 
Colonel Jackson for State Treasurer and Galusha A. Grow for Congressmair 
at-Parge. He is one of the clerks in the Register and Recorder's office of 
Fayette County. He was not specially interested in bills except a few local 
ones he introduced and in those designed to promote the interests of the labor- 
ing classes. He was a member of the Committees on Bureau of Statistics, 
Elections, Judicial Apportionment and Mines and Alining, and made a good 
record as a member of the House, to which he was elected by about 2,000 
majority. 




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CHARLES M. KERR, one of York 
County's Representatives in the 
House, was born in Wrightsville, that 
county, February 27, 1867. After receiv- 
ing an education in the common schools 
of his town he accepted a position as 
clerk in a store, in which position he 
remained two years. He subsequently 
took a course in the Eastman College, 
Poughkeepsie, New York. On his return 
to his home he, in 1878, located at Winona, 
Minnesota, where he was employed by 
Laird, Norton & Co., large lumber manu- 
facturers. During the fall of the same 
year he went to Garry, Dakota, and en- 
gaged in the business of sheep raising 
under the firm name of Kerr, Harris & 
Co. After three years' experience in this 
business he was afforded an opportunity by his father to become a member of 
the firm of Kerr Bros. , large lime manufacturers, at Wrightsville. He accepted 
this proposition and is still a member of the firm. He was nominated as one 
of the Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives by the largest 
vote received by any of the successful nominees for the Legislature and also 
obtained the largest plurality at the polls. The nomination was conferred 
on him without solicitation on his part. When elected he was President of 
the Board of Health of Wrightsville, and prior to that time held other local 
positions. He has always been an ardent Democrat and showed by his close 
and intelligent application to legislation that his constituents had acted wisely 
in honoring him with election. He served on the Committees on Railroads, 
Agriculture, Manufactures and Compare Bills. 




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\ W. SMILEY, of Clarion County, 
i V. was born on a farm near Union 
City, Erie County, Pennsylvania, July 
1 6, 1^4,1- His grandparents on the 
mother's side were among the first set- 
tlers of Clarion County, having arrived 
in iNo2 from what is now Centre County, 
and soon after plodded their way through 
the wilderness of that time and located 
in Erie County. His ancestry on his 
father's side was of Scotch Irish descent, 
the Smileys and Kirkpatricks being 
among the first settlers of Erie County. 
Mr. Smiley received a common school 
education in the district school, which 
at that time afforded very limited educa- 
tional advantages, worked on the farm 
and learned the trade of a miller, but 
at the age of seventeen, in i860, when the people of Oil Creek and 
other portions of Pennsylvania were greatly excited by the discovery of 
oil, he connected himself with that business, and has followed it almost 
continuously, the exception being his association with the Atlantic and 
Great Western Railroad in 1863 and 1864. He was one of the pioneers 
of the famous Pithole oil field, and amassed a fortune in six months, but 
like many others, who acquired wealth suddenly in that region, it was 
entirely dissipated when the supply of petroleum in the Pithole field was 
exhausted. Since then he has met fortune going in both directions. He 
laid the first successfully operated pipe line from Pithole to the Miller farm 
on Oil Creek. When oil in large quantities was discovered in Clarion 
County, in 1872, Mr. Smiley became a citizen of that county, and has re- 
sided there ever since. He was one of the principal promoters of the narrow 
gauge railroad system, known as the P. & W. road, and receipted for the 
charter of that corporation. Mr. Smiley is serving his third term in the 
House, having been elected to the Legislatures of 1887, 18S9 and 1895. At 
the election in November, 1894, he was confronted with great obstacles in his 
campaign, because of his connection with the Standard Oil Company, and 
the resistless tide which had set in against the Democratic Party on account 
of the general depression of business, but he lauded a winner by a comfort- 
able majority. Mr. Smiley has always been an ardent Democrat, and has 
never sulked in his political tent. He is one of the most popular members 
of the House, and owing to this circumstance and his persistent work in 
pressing legislation entrusted to him, he has generally succeeded in having 
it passed. 



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JOHN H. PATCH IN, who has the 
rare satisfaction of representing in 
part, as a Republican, that Gibralter 
of Democracy, Clearfield County, was 
born in Patchinville, in the same county, 
April 9, 1868. This town was named for 
his grandfather, who was one of the first 
lumbermen in Clearfield County. Repre- 
sentative Patchin attended the public 
schools until he was sixteen years old, 
when he entered Bucknell College in 
Lewisburg. After availing himself of its 
educational advantages for three years 
he entered Lafayette College, remaining 
in the institution until his Sophomore 
vear. Since then he has been attending 
to his father's large lumber and mercan- 
tile business in Patchinville. His ances- 
tors were early settlers of Clearfield County, and his father. A. W. Patchin, 
is known from the head to the mouth of the Susquehanna, because of the 
many rafts he has had floated down the river. Representative Patchin has 
taken a prominent part in Republican politics in his county and enjoys the 
proud distinction, in company with his colleague, Representative Ames, of 
being the first Republican member of the House from Clearfield County since 
the formation of that party. He was not only elected, but by a majority of 
over 1 ,000. Mr. Patchin is the fourth youngest member of the present Legis- 
lature, and has shown great capacity for work on committees and acquitted 
himself creditably on the floor of the House. He was assigned to the Com- 
mittees on Counties and Townships. Fish and Game, Labor and Industry 
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earfield County, was born in 
Kylertown, that county, July 26, 1869, 
making him the second youngest mem- 
ber of the House. He was educated in 
the common schools at his native place 
until fifteen years old, when he attended 
the State Normal School at Ediuboro, 
Pennsylvania, two years. He subse- 
quently became a student in the Lebanon 
(Ohio) University for the purpose of pre- 
paring for the profession of law, but he 
reconsidered his purpose, and for two 
years took to the road as an insurance 
agent and met with measurable suc- 
cess. In 1S90 he entered the office ol 
the Raftsman 's Journal in Clearfield, 
conducted by M. L. MeOuown, elected 
Senator in 1894 from the district of which Clearfield forms a part. Mr. 
Ames was then Secretary of the Republican County Committee. In 1891 
he changed his base of operations to Kylertown, his old home, where he 
took charge of a drug store, of which he is still proprietor. He also 
attended to his father's real estate business. In the campaign of 1894 he 
was actively on the stump and made many telling speeches. The contest 
resulted in his election to the House by a majority of 1,149 over the highest 
Democratic candidate. As Clearfield County never before returned a Repub- 
lican to the Legislature this was certainly a great triumph. Early in the 
session Mr. Ames introduced a bill which attracted much attention. It pro- 
vided for the establishment of a State Board of Arbitration and was endorsed 
by 200,000 members of labor organizations of various kinds in Pennsylvania. 
It was generally regarded as a conservative measure in the interest of a 
peaceful solution of strike troubles, but the Judiciary Committee reported 
it with a negative recommendation. Mr. Ames is of Puritan stock, his 
ancestors having come from England and located in Massachusetts. He 
served on the Committees on Congressional Apportionment, Mines and 
Mining, Coal and Iron, and Labor and Industry, and made an excellent 
impression with his fellow-members of the House. 



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W. BROWN, member of the House 

from Warren County, was horn Sep- 
tember 8, i 835, in what is known as Farm- 
ington Township, Warren County. In his 
early life he attended the common schools 
and the academy at Jamestown, New 
York, and worked on his father's farm. 
At the age of eighteen he began learning 
the trade of carpenter and joiner, at which 
occupation he remained six years. When 
twenty-one years old he served as Con- 
stable and Tax Collector in his township 
for two terms. Subsequently he prose- 
cuted the mercantile business and oc- 
casionally did some lumbering. On Oc- 
tober 30, 1862, he enlisted at Camp Cur- 
tin, Harrisburg, in Company F, One Hun- 
dred and Fifty-first Regiment, Pennsylva- 
nia Volunteers, recruited from different portions of the State. Among the 
battles in which he participated were those of Chaneellorsville and Gettys- 
burg. He was all through the conflict on Pennsylvania soil, which practically 
deeded the Union Army the victors in the War of the Rebellion, and his regi- 
ment in the first day's fight lost more in killed than any other Union regimtnt 
in the battle, except one, and the regiment in the Confederate service pitted 
against the One Hundred and Fdfty-first had almost a similar record as re- 
lated to the Southern Army engaged in the contest. Nearly all this slaughter 
was accomplished in two hours. At the expiration of Mr. Brown's enlist- 
ment, July 27, 1863, he was mustered out of service. Soon after his return 
to his home he was elected School Director and served in the position six 
years. About this time he began farming for himself and has continued at 
that occupation ever since. About 1880 he was elected Associate Judge of 
Warren County, serving a full term of five years. Mr. Brown was one of 
the working members of the House of 1895, and consumed very little time 
in discussion. He served on the Committees on Agriculture, Accounts, 
Bureau of Statistics and Federal Relations. 



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OETH ORME, who represents in part 
O the Fourth District of Schuylkill 
County, was born near Manchester, 
England, November S, 1847. In 1855 
his parents came to this country, locat- 
ing at St. Clair, Schuylkill County. At 
thirteen years of age, after he had at- 
tended common school in the winter 
and worked about the mines in summer, 
young Orme had the misfortune of losing 
one of his legs by a mine wagon running 
over it. Six months after the accident 
he began learning the shoemaker trade, 
which he followed several years, when 
he entered the retail shoe business. In 
1N7N, when thirty one years old, he was 
candidate on the Greenback labor ticket 
in Schuylkill County, and came within 
176 votes of being elected in a poll of about 20,000. He has been a member 
of the Council and School Board of St. Clair and President of both bodies. 
He also has been Secretary of the School Board. In iSSr he was appointed 
Postmaster at St. Clair, under the administration of President Garfield, and 
was among the first Republican office holders removed for offensive partisan- 
ship when Cleveland became President. Mr. Harrison re-appointed Mr. Orme 
Postmaster, but he resigned the office in order to give all his time to his 
canvass for the legislative nomination of his party. He was easily nomi- 
nated, and his election was accomplished by a gratifying majority, reach- 
ing about 2,000. He served on the Committees on Mines and Mining, 
Judiciary Focal, Federal Relations, Public Buildings and Grounds and Labor 
and Industry. He showed great interest in legislation affecting the laboring 
people, representing, as he does, a large wage-earning constituency. He 
did not indulge in any oratory, but faithfully performed the work his posi- 
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HAMPTON W. RICE, one of the 
members from Bucks County, was 
born in Solebury Township, that county, 
March 24, 1844, on a farm which has 
been owned and operated by the Rices for 
five generations. He was educated in the 
common schools and the Normal Insti- 
tute at Carversville, in which he remained 
three years. In 1879 Mr. Rice's father 
died and the son came into possession of 
the old homestead. About eight years 
ago he entered into partnership with his 
father-in-law in the fertilizing business, 
in which he is still engaged. He never 
held any important office except that of 
member of the House, but served six 
years as a School Director and filled other 
local positions at his home. He is a 
Director in the National Dairymen's Protective Association, and has been a 
member of the Pennsylvania State Grange eighteen years, and connected 
with a fanner's club in his township twenty-one years. He has also been 
master of a Pomona Grange four years and has been prominently identified 
in all movements in his county calculated to advance the interests of the 
farmers. It was in response to the demands of the agricultural people of his 
county that he became a candidate for the Legislature. Although Bucks has 
been accustomed to send Democrats to the House, Mr. Rice had a plurality 
of about 1,400. He showed an especial interest in the defeat of legislation 
intended to lessen the rigors of the law prohibiting the manufacture and sale 
of oleomargarine, and in the passage of the bills to promote the interests ot 
the agriculturists of the State. He was a member of the Committees on 
Agriculture, Congressional Apportionment, Library and Elections. Mr. 
Rice's great-grandfather came from the county Tyrone, Ireland, and both his 
parents were members of the Society of Friends, to which the subject of this 
sketch also belongs. 



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pHARLES A. HAWKINS, one of the 
\j members from York County, was 
born in Fawn Township, that county, 
January 7, 1S59. He attended the pub- 
lie schools in York County, the York 
County Academy, the Bethel Academy 
in Harford County, Maryland, and grad- 
uated at Swarthmore College in 187S. 
He was connected with two publishing 
houses from 1878 to 1883, and during 
this period was located in Philadelphia, 
Melbourne, Australia, Kansas City, and 
Cincinatti. During the school year of 
1883 and 1884 he conducted the Fawn 
Grove Academy in his native town . Hav- 
ing during that time, and subsequently, 
closely devoted himself to the study of 
law, he was admitted to practice at the 
bar of York County in September, 1S85. He has since prosecuted his pro- 
fession in York, which city he represented as City Solicitor three terms. In 
1S94 ne was nominated for member of the House and scored a respectable 
majority, notwithstanding the demoralized condition of the Democratic 
Party. Mr. Hawkins early showed his ability as a debater, clearly and 
concisely presenting his views on important questions under consideration. 
He was a member of the Committees on Judiciary Local, Insurance, Statistics,, 
and Retrenchment and Reform. 




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JAMES L. YOUNG, one of the Repre- 
sentatives from Cumberland County, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on 
May 3, 1867, while his father, C. B. Young, 
was holding a position in the Treasury 
Department. A few years subsequently 
his parents removed to a farm near Gettys- 
burg, on which he worked, meanwhile 
availing himself of all the schooling he 
could obtain. Utilizing the education he 
had acquired by his studious habits he 
became a teacher in the public schools. 
He afterward graduated from the Ship- 
pensburg Normal School with honors, 
being the orator of his class. Further ex- 
perience as a teacher was followed by read- 
ing law with ex-Senator William Penn 
Lloyd, of Mechanicsburg. In 1S91 he 
was admitted to practice at the bar of Cumberland County. Since then he 
has actively and successfully practiced the legal profession in Mechanicsburg. 
In September, iSgr, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the Fourth 
ward of that town, and at the next municipal election was chosen as his own 
successor without opposition. When nominated for the House in 1894 very 
few people had any idea of his election in the staunch Democratic county of 
Cumberland, but, nothing daunted by the overwhelming odds which con- 
fronted him, he instituted a canvass which culminated in his easy success, 
Mr. Young defeating his highest competitor by 460 majority, and his towns- 
man, Harry H. Mercer, by 539 majority. Mr. Young evinced great 
aptitude for legislative duties, and as a debater displayed much ability. 
He served on the Committees on Judiciary General, Elections, Bureau of 
Statistics and Retrenchment and Reform, and took great interest in 
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DWARD M. LUDEN, one of the 
, members of the House from Reading, 
Berks County, was born in that city, 
November 9, 1854. He was educated in 
the schools of his native town and took a 
course in a Business College in the same 
place. He was twelve years Real Estate 
Assessor of Reading, three years a Police 
Sergeant under Mayor Kenney and dur- 
ing a portion of Garfield's administration 
a mailing clerk in the post office of 
that city and is the proprietor of one of 
largest tobacco houses in the country. 
He has always taken great interest in the 
Fire Department of Reading and has 
done much toward making it a marked 
success. As a staunch Republican he 
has prominently figured in politics for 
many years, has represented his party in Republican State Conventions re- 
peatedly and has never flinched in his devotion to its principles. In 1894 
he was elected a member of the House without much difficulty, having for 
his competitors Messrs. Laucks and Goodhart, who were victorious two 
years before by from 1,100 to 1,200 plurality. Mr. Euden's father was a 
native of Holland and a strong Democrat, but his three sons all grew up 
Republicans. The paternal side of the family had a history which can be 
traced back nearly five hundred years. Mr. Ludeu served on the Commit- 
tees on Banks, Public Buildings, Manufactures and Centennial Affairs. He 
was not given to much talking, but when he appeared in debate invariably 
acquitted himself with credit. 



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T_T ENRY W. KRATZ, one of the 
1 1 members from Montgomery County, 
was born in Perkiomen Township, the 
same county, July 31, [834. He re- 
moved with his parents to Trappe, 
Montgomery County, in 1S40, and was 
educated in the public schools and in 
Washington Hall Collegiate Institute at 
Trappe, at which he prepared for college. 
Instead of availing himself of a college 
training, however, he engaged in teach- 
ing, which profession he followed until 
1876. In i860 he was elected Justice of 
the Peace, and in connection with that 
office and teaching he took up surveying 
and conveyancing and established an 
extensive and lucrative business in that 
line of work and continued it at Trappe 
until 1888. In 1866 Mr. Kratz was a Transcribing Clerk in the Senate of 
Pennsylvania, which position he held two terms. In 1881 he was elected 
Recorder of Deeds of Montgomery County. He was chosen a Director in 
Ursinus College in 1868 and became the President of the Board, which 
position he has held ever since. He was one of the founders of the National 
Bank of Schwenksville, which was organized in 1874, and is its President. 
He is a manager of the Perkiomen turnpike road, and was a member of the 
State Board of Agriculture from 1887 to 1893. In 1894 Mr. Kratz was 
nominated by the Republican Party to succeed the late Representative A. 
L- Taggart, and received the unusually large majority of 2,972. He is still 
engaged in conveyancing, settling estates, and in insurance work. Mr. 
Kratz served on the Committees on Education, Banking, Insurance and 
Library. He took particular interest in subjects relating to education and 
insurance, with which he showed thorough familiarity. Like other indus- 
trious members of the Legislature he found the duties of his position 
sufficiently arduous to occupy almost his entire time during sessions of the 
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IINUS W. MOORE, of Susquehanna 
_y County, was born at Bridgewater, 
that county, August 20, 1841. His edu- 
cation was confined to that received in 
the public schools. At the age of 
eighteen years he began farming and has 
devoted nearly his entire life to agricul- 
tural pursuits. Four years ago he joined 
with about fifty other farmers of Susque- 
hanna County in the organization of a 
company, which has in operation two 
large creameries in that county, the pro- 
duct of which is mostly shipped and sold 
in New York City. Mr. Moore and his 
fellow agriculturists are also connected 
with the Shearon Dairy Company in 
New York State. Some idea may be 
formed of the extensive character of 
these establishments from the fact that they pay out about $20,000 a month. 
Mr. Moore has also been connected with the mercantile, stock-shipping and 
lumber business. He was elected to the House of 1895 in the previous year 
by a majority of over 2,200. This is the first political position of any im- 
portance which he has held. He has a mixture of Scotch-Irish and Yankee 
blood in his composition. He was a member of the Committee on Legisla- 
tive Apportionment, Geological Survey, Library and Accounts. Mr. Moore 
paid especial attention to bills affecting the interests of the agriculturists 
of the State and was particularly opposed to the repeal of the law prohibit- 
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BENJAMIN K. SPANGLER, of Cum- 
berland County, was born in Carlisle, 
September 8, 1832. After receiving a com- 
mon school education he was apprenticed 
to the chair-making trade with Major A. 
A. Line, of Carlisle. His enfeebled con- 
dition compelled him to abandon the pur- 
suit, and in 1850 he learned the business 
of making cigars in Harrisburgwith David 
Krause, a noted character of the State 
Capital for more than half a century. 
Mr. Spangler has been a Republican since 
the formation of that party, and before 
his selection to the House filled several 
ward positions in Carlisle. In 1894 he 
conducted a novel campaign, his most ef- 
fective work being singing political songs 
at Republican gatherings. The fact that 
he was a member of the order of Junior and Senior American Mechanics ma- 
terially helped him in the contest. While Cumberland has been one of the 
truest Democratic counties in Pennsylvania he was elected with the expendi- 
ture of very little money and over very popular Democrats. Mr. Spangler 
has been a member of the order of Masons since 1864. He has held the 
offices of Past Master, High Priest and Past Eminent Commander. During 
the late war he was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and has since held the position of Chap- 
lain of Post 201, Grand Army of the Republic. He is actively engaged in 
the cigar and tobacco business in Carlisle when not attending to his duties as 
a legislator. He took an active part in the passage of the bill to prevent 
teachers in the public schools from wearing religious garbs and made a 
speech on this subject, the main features of which were printed in the 
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WALTER H. PARCELS, who repre- 
sents Mifflin County in the House, 
was born among the hemlocks of Alle- 
gany County, New York, March 23, 1S4S. 
After availing himself of a common school 
education, forty-five clays before sixteen 
years old, he enlisted on February 6, 1864, 
in Company D, Fiftieth New York Vol- 
unteer Engineers, and soon after joined 
the Army of the Potomac at Rappahan- 
nock Station. He served in the Union 
ranks until the close of the war, and his 
history during his term of service was 
that of his regiment. On his return home 
Mr. Parcels enteied the Belfast Academy, 
in his native county, and after remaining 
in the institution about a year and a half, 
completed his school studies in Oberliu 
College, Ohio, where he took a course of three years. He read medicine in 
Oberlin with Drs. Allen and Noble, and graduated March 1, 1873. Having 
been informed of an opening for his profession at Reedsville, Mifflin County, 
Pa., he located in that town and was successful from the start. After an ex- 
perience of about a year and a half he removed to Toledo, Ohio, to continue 
the medical practice in that city. A year subsequently he established him- 
self in Lewistown, where he has successfully practiced medicine for the past 
eighteen years. Mr. Parcels loves to travel and has been twice across the 
American continent and made one trip to Europe. He has exhibited great 
racing qualities as a candidate for the Legislature. In 1882 he was elected 
to the House from Mifflin County by a majority of 618, while the count}- was 
naturally Republican, and in 1894 he was successful by a majority of 68, 
while General Hastings carried it by 635, defeating Captain Thomas B. Reed, 
formally a clerk in the Senate and a popular Republican. Mr. Parcels is a 
member of the Soldiers' Orphan School Commission and of the Joint Special 
Committee to investigate the management of the Wernersville and Norristown 
Insane Hospitals . Among the committees on which he served were Health and 
Sanitation and Military. He was one of the best debaters in the House, and 
has delivered many able speeches on important questions. Mr. Parcels is a 
member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and for many years has 
been most active in Grand Army work. During Cleveland's first term as 
President he was a member of the Board of Pension Examining Surgeons at 
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1AC0B BOLARD, one of the members 
from Crawford County, was born in 
that county, June 5, 1837. He was 
educated in the common schools and the 
Conneautville Academy, after which he 
devoted himself to farming until 1862, 
when he enlisted in Company B, One 
Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers, Infantry, a nine 
months' regiment, and participated in 
several hard-fought battles. At the ex- 
piration of his term of enlistment he was 
appointed hospital steward, November, 
1863, and was stationed at Seminary Hos- 
pital, Columbus, Ohio, a year and a half. 
In January, 1865, he was promoted to the 
Captaincy of Company B, One Hundred 
and Ninety-seventh Regiment, and served 
until the close of the war. On his return home he connected himself with 
the oil business in this State for two years, when he located in Conneaut- 
ville, Pa., and prosecuted the tanning business fifteen years. At the expira- 
tion of that time he removed to Cambridge Borough, Crawford County, 
where he is engaged in tanning and operating a stock farm, on which he has 
made quite a reputation as a breeder of fine carriage and trotting horses. Mr. 
Bolard served three terms as Burgess of Conneautville, and also filled the 
positions of Councilman and School Director in that town. He was Presi- 
dent of the Crawford County Agricultural Society eight years and was a 
member of the State Road Commission, appointed by Governor Beaver in 
1890. He was appointed by Governor Hartranft Captain on Colonel Car- 
penter's Staff, of the Fifteenth Regiment, National Guard, and re-appointed 
by Governor Hoyt. While he does not figure much in the Legislative Record 
Captain Bolard gave all important legislation his careful attention and was 
therefore enabled to vote intelligently on all questions under consideration. 
He served on the Committees on Banks, Fish and Game, Accounts and Com- 
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FSTAVUS C. SCHRIXK, one of 

v^» the five Republican members of the 

^^S* House from Schuylkill county, was born 

m May i, 1856, in Newark, New Jersey, 

I ^ j Ml, ' m where his father, Rev. Christian Schrink, 

was a clergyman for many years. At 
the early age of eleven years the son 
became a printer's apprentice in the 
office of the Volksman, a German paper 
published in the town of his nativity. 
Two years subsequently the proprietor of 
the journal died and publication of it 
was suspended. The father of the sub- 
ject of this sketch was born in Germany, 
but received his education in this 
country. Young Schrink devoted him- 
self to the acquisition of a thorough 
knowledge of the hardware trade. 
When sixteen years old he had mastered the business and was a journey- 
man, earning a man's pay. He earned some distinction as a writer of 
poetry, and later on in life, being a good singer, turned his talents in a 
musical direction. This step was followed by his appearance on the stage 
as a German comedian. His parents were naturally averse to this avoca- 
tion, and in 1879 Mr. Schrink, in deference to their wishes, retired from the 
stage and secured a position to represent E. G. Ford, a large household fur- 
nisher. In 1880 he was ordered to Pottsville by his employer, and has lived 
in that town ever since. He was quickly advanced to manager of Mr. 
Ford's store at that point, and because of the good business qualities he dis- 
played in 1887 he and his employer entered into a partnership under the 
name of G. C. Schrink & Co. Two years later Mr. Ford retired, and the 
store which they had jointly operated has since been successfully conducted 
by Mr. Schrink. He has always been an ardent Republican and has repre- 
sented his party at county and State conventions. During the last four 
years he has been Captain of the Central Republican Club of Pottsville. 
He was a School Director of that borough for six years prior to becom- 
ing one of the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, and 
in that time was absent from the meetings of the board only four times. 
He is a member of the Board of Control of the Third Brigade Band, and a 
Director of the Pottsville Hospital and other charitable institutions. Mr. 
Schrink has been prominently identified with many public enterprises calcu- 
lated to advance the importance of his adopted town. In the House he 
represented in part the Fourth District of Schuylkill County, and at the elec- 
tion last November defeated the highest candidate for the Legislature on the 
Democratic ticket by 1,838 majority. As a legislator he has exhibited the 
same qualities which have made him successful as a business man, and had 
passed in the House the National Guard Baud Bill, to give a military band 
the same amount annually as a military company, and to promote the band 
leader. 



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lENJAMIN F. STUCK, one of the 
Schuylkill County members, was 
born near Georgetown, Northumberland 
County. When he was only a few years 
old his parents removed to Snyder 
County. His father, dying in 1865, he 
made his home with his uncle. From 
the time he was old enough to enter 
school until 187 1 he obtained all the edu- 
cation possible in the common schools. 
In that year he located at Tower City, 
Schuylkill County, where he received 
employment as a slatepicker. He worked 
about the mines in various capacities 
until 1 88 1 , when he was given the posi- 
tion of warehouseman, at his home, by 
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 
Company. After holding the place about 
a year and a half he was appointed station agent by the same corporation at 
Tower City. On the completion of the Williams Valley Railroad the sta- 
tion was abandoned, and Mr. Stuck became an employee of the latter com- 
pany, with which he still is connected in the same capacity. He was con- 
spicuous in the movement, inaugurated several years ago, to change his town 
into a borough, and had the satisfaction of seeing the scheme succeed. The 
subsequent erection of a handsome and commodious school house in the 
place was largely due to the prominent part he took to have it erected. In 
November, 1894, he was elected a member of the House by a plurality of 
about 1,700. He served as a member of the Committees on Printing, 
Banks and Banking, Coal and Iron and Fish and Game. Mr. Stuck has been 
identified with the Republican Party since he has had a vote and has been 
School Director in the borough where he resides since 1892, two of which he 
was Secretary. As a legislator he displayed commendable qualities and 
only addressed the House when he had something practical to say. He was 
firmly opposed to the bill which had for its object the creation of a new 
county out of Luzerne and Schuylkill, and made a good speech against it. 




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PERRY WANNEMACHER, of Le- 
high County, was born in Lynn 
Township, that county, June 17, 1838. 
He received a moderate education in the 
common schools and passed parts of the 
year 1857 and 1858 at the Union Semin- 
ary, New Berlin, Union County, Pa. He 
taught school four years in Carbon 
County, to which his parents removed 
when he was ten years old. Mr. Wan- 
nemacher was assistant and superin- 
tendent of the Carbon and Thomas Iron 
Company's ore mines twenty-seven years, 
when depression in business, caused 
mainly by the sharp competition from 
the West and the comparative inferiority 
of the ore in Lehigh County, compelled 
him to abandon the place he had so long 
held. Since 1893 he has been a dealer in coal, lumber, grain and slate, in 
Macungie, where he resides. In 1894 Mr. Wannemacher was nominated 
for the House by the Republicans of Lehigh County without asking for the 
honor. In fact he accepted the nomination under protest, preferring to 
prosecute his business to entering a contest for member of the Legisla- 
ture. While he had no reason to hope for election he was chosen by a 
plurality of over 500. Sixteen years ago Mr. Wannemacher was a Republi- 
can candidate for the House in Lehigh County and was beaten only about 
450, while the Democratic majority at that time was about 2,800 in the 
county. The present is the only important office that he has held. He was 
School Director several years and filled other minor positions. He was a 
member of the Committees on Pensions and Gratuities, Federal Relations, 
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A.T. ANDREWS, one of the mem 

rbers of the House from Crawford 
County, was born in Kast Fallowfield 
Township, that county, August 31, 1847. 
He has devoted a large portion of his life 
to farming, and for twenty-three years 
has 1 >een travelingsalesman for well-known 
implement and fertilizing firms, in which 
occupation he has done a large business. 
As indicating the success with which he 
f m-^^fe''?^ I conducted the business of a salesman it 

f'% , ,'ffl ■tej may be stated he disposed of [,600 ma- 

A ■ $km chines for one firm. Mr. Andrews was 

Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the House 
at the session of i> s 77~7< s . and last fall 
was elected a Representative by a majority 
of about 3,000. He has been elected 
Justice of the Peace in his township three 
times. Although Mr. Andrews is not given to oratory he scanned legislation 
with great vigilance and voted conscientiously on all questions. He opposed 
by his vote and influence all propositions looking to the passage of the 
Marshall Pipe Line Bill because he believed its operations would be to the 
decided disadvantage of the oil interests of Pennsylvania in the opportunity 
it would give the Standard Oil Company to crush out competition. Mr. 
Andrews was educated in the common schools of his county. He is an active 
member of the Grange, and during the recent session served on the Com- 
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ARRY R. CURTIN, of Centre 
County, was born in Boggs Town- 
ship, Centre County, January 12, 1850. 
After receiving a limited education he 
entered the Farmers' High School, which 
is now known as the Pennsylvania State 
College. About two years and a half 
were spent in the school, when he re- 
turned home and was employed at what 
was known as the Iron Works farm. 
Subsequently he entered Dickinson Sem- 
inary atWilliamsport, where he remained 
until the spring of 1872. In that year he 
entered on the active management of the 
iron works, assuming control of the cord 
wood, charcoal, furnace and forge depart- 
ments. In 1 88 1 he assumed also the en- 
tire management of the mining of ore. 
While at these works he familiarized himself with the interests of labor, and 
this experience was of great advantage to him when he ran as the Republican 
candidate for the Legislature, many Democratic workingmen supporting 
him. After the closing down of 'the works Robert P. Porter, chief of the 
Eleventh census, in casting about for expert special agents to collect data 
for the iron and steel industry, selected Mr. Curtin for that work. In the 
performance of his duty he visited the large iron works in the Eastern and 
Western States and gathered much valuable information, which was utilized 
in the preparation of census reports. In 1893 Centre County was repre- 
sented by two Democratic members in the House, but notwithstanding the 
aggressive fight made by that party and the excellent organization perfected 
by^Chairman Orvis and his lieutenants, Mr. Curtin, with his colleague, won 
an easy victory. He was a popular member and applied himself closely and 
intelligently to legislative matters. The Committees to which he was 
assigned were Congressional Apportionment, Counties and Townships, Man- 
ufactures and Municipal Corporations. 




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AMES W. FREDERICKS, of Clin- 
ton County, was born in Bald Eagle 
Township, Clinton County, October 
31, 1S42. He was raised on a farm and 
worked on it until fourteen years old, 
meanwhile attending common school 
during the winter months. When the 
War of the Rebellion broke out he was 
a clerk in a store. In April, 1S61, he 
enlisted in Company I), Eleventh Regi- 
ment, in General Robert Patterson's Di- 
vision. He was mustered into service for 
three months, and the principal battle in 
which he participated was Falling Waters. 
On his return home he resumed the busi- 
ness of clerking until June, 1864, when 
he raised a company of one hundred and 
five men at Dock Haven and was as- 
signed as Captain of the organization in the Two Hundred and Seventh 
Regiment, commanded by Colonel Coxe, of Wellsboro. The Division to 
which his Regiment was attached was commanded by General Hartranft. 
Captain Fredericks was in the famous fight at Fort Steadman, where Gen- 
eral Hartranft won great military honors by being made a Major General. 
Captain Fredericks also took part in the capture of the Weldon railroad, 
April 2, 1S65, and assisted in the capture of Fort Damnation in front of 
Petersburg, which battle was followed by the possession of the latter city by 
the United States troops. The last encounter in which he had a hand was 
Five Forks. In June, 1S65, he was mustered out of service and entered the 
hardware business at Lock Haven, in which he has been engaged since. In 
1S77 he was appointed United States Gauger by President Hayes and 
served in that position during his administration and that of President Gar- 
field. Previously he had served three years as Deputy Collector of Internal 
Revenue under General Grant. At his home he has filled a number of local 
offices. Although a Republican he, in 1S94, was elected by nearly 300 
pluralitv in the Democratic County of Clinton. He was a member of the 
Committees on Judiciary Focal, Vice and Immorality, Military and Retrench- 
ment and Reform. Among the bills he introduced was one providing for the 
erection in Capitol Park of an equestrian statue of General Hartranft. Mr. 
Fredericks made himself useful as a member of the Legislature whenever and 
wherever opportunity offered. 



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C. SHUEY, of Schuylkill County, 
was born August n, 1843, in that 
county, and was educated in the public 
schools. He was raised on a farm and 
pursued that avocation until eighteen 
years old. On March 10, 1862, before 
he was nineteen years of age, he enlisted 
in the Union Army, joining the Seventy- 
Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment. He took 
part in all the engagements in which the 
Tenth Army Corps participated, includ- 
ing those of James Island, Morris Island, 
Fort Wagner, Chesterfield Heights, Coal 
Harbor, Battle of the Crater, Petersburg 
and Fort Fisher. Mr. Shuey, after fight- 
ing for his country thirty-seven months, 
returned to Schuylkill County and en- 
gaged in the blacksmithing business. 
Subsequently he devoted himself to farming and milling and for the past 
eleven years has been operating a flouring mill about thirteen miles from 
Pottsville. Until elected to represent his district in the House in 1894 he 
had never been chosen to any important office. He had, however, filled 
local positions with credit. In 1892 he was a candidate for the Legislature, 
and made a fine run, coming within 398 of defeating Dence, Democrat, while 
Cleveland had 959 plurality for President. In view of the gallant fight he 
had made he was re-nominated in 1894 on the first ballot by the Republican 
Party of Schuylkill County, and secured his election by a majority of 116 
over the man who had defeated him two years before. Mr. Shuey was a 
member of the Committee on Counties and Townships, which Committee 
was rendered especially important from the fact of the introduction of a bill 
to create a new county out of Luzerne and Schuylkill counties. He did all 
in his power to defeat the project, because he was opposed to mutilating the 
county he, in part, represented in the House. At home Mr. Shuey is an ac- 
tive politician, and turns up at all county conventions. He was on the Com- 
mittees on Counties and Townships, Coal and Iron, Elections and Public 
Buildings. While he paid marked attention to all important legislation he 
particularly looked after the interests of his constitutents. 



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DH. PATTERSON, of Fulton County, 
. the successor of Captain George W. 
Skinner, was born in Ayr Township, 
Fulton County, December i, 184.4. He 
received a common school education, 
after which he entered the Mercersburg 
Academy, in Franklin County, and 
Westminster College, in New Wilming- 
ton, Lawrence County. He was gradu- 
ated from the latter institution in the 
class of 1S66. Since then, except an in- 
terval of four years, he has been em- 
ployed in mercantile pursuits at Webster 
Mills, in his native county. Four years 
of his adult life were spent in Allegheny 
City, where he conducted general mer- 
chandizing business. Mr. Patterson never 
held any position outside of member of 
the House except that of a School Director in his township. During the War 
of the Rebellion he belonged to a company of students recruited from 
Westminster College, known as emergency men. They did not participate 
in any battle, but were near the front ready for action. The crisis which 
called them into service having passed by the driving of General Fee's army 
into Virginia, the college boys were discharged, after having done military 
duty about two weeks. Mr. Patterson enjoys the distinction of representing 
a county in the Legislature which rarely elects a Republican member of the 
House. His plurality was almost as large as the average received by Demo- 
cratic candidates. He was a member of the Committees on Education, 
Agriculture and Federal Relations. Mr. Patterson belonged to chat large 
body of legislators whose principal work is done in committee. 





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*YRUS J. RHODE, of Berks County, 
was born June u, 1852, in Green- 
wich Township, of the same county. 
Until he was sixteen years old he worked 
on a farm and obtained such an educa- 
tion as the common schools in his neigh- 
borhood enabled him to acquire and 
afterwards attended at different periods 
the Keystone State Normal School at 
Kutztown. Until he attained the age of 
twenty-nine he was employed alternately 
at teaching in the common schools during 
the winter and at bricklaying in the sum- 
mer. After working at his trade and 
teaching school for thirteen years he 
abandoned that calling and engaged in 
the milling business in Lehigh County, in 
which he met with reasonable success. 
After prosecuting the business for five years he became engaged in that of 
baking in Kutztown, Berks County, which business he is still carrying on. 
Mr. Rhode is known in his community as an active Democrat and was 
elected for the third time as School Director in his town, served three years 
as a member of the Town Council and is now, and has been for years, a 
Director and Secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 
In 1892 he was a candidate for member of the House but was defeated by a 
narrow margin for nomination. In 1S94 he easily secured a place on the 
Legislative ticket and was elected by a majority about as large as his Repub- 
lican opponent had votes. Mr. Rhode's great-grandfather on his father's 
side came from England and his maternal great-grandfather from Holland. 
He served on the Committees 011 Insurance, Elections, Mines and Mining 
and Congressional Apportionment. All important legislation received the 
most earnest, careful and intelligent attention at his hands. 




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TAME vS P A T T E RS O N, of Bucks 

County, was horn in Wrightstown 
Township, that county, June [9, 
1843. He attended common school until 
about eighteen years of age, working at 
fanning in the summer and acquiring his 
education in the winter months. He con- 
tinued farming until 1864, when he en- 
tered the Union Army. He enlisted as a 
member of Company H, Fifth Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry, and joined General Sher- 
idan's forces in the Valley of Shenandoah. 
He participated in all the engagements 
on the James river, and at Five Forks re- 
ceived a very serious wound, a bullet hav- 
ing gone through his right arm and right 
side, passing through a portion of his lung 
and emerging on the opposite side. He 
was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, and on his return 
home resumed farming, continuing at it until 1876, when the painful effect 
of the injuries he received in the army compelled him to seek other employ- 
ment. In 1879 he graduated at the College of Surgery and Medicine at 
Trenton, New jersey, and became a veterinary surgeon, which profession he 
has since followed in Bucks County, in conjunction with operating the farm 
he owns. At his Pennsylvania home he was School Director nine years and 
filled other minor offices. In 1890 he was a Census Enumerator in his district. 
In 1 894 he was nominated by the Republican Party of his county as a candi- 
date for the Legislature, and was easily elected. He served on the Com- 
mittees on Military, City Passenger Railways, Corporations and Compare 
Bills. Mr. Patterson belongs to the large majority of members who are 
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CHARLES H. DUTTERA, the only 
Democratic member of the House 
from Adams County, was born in Ger- 
many Township, in the same county, 
July 9, 1859. After receiving a mod- 
erate common school education he 
learned the trade of tanner with his 
father. At the age of twenty years he 
embarked in the business of tanning on 
his own hook, buying his father's inter- 
est. Two years later he purchased his 
father's farm and for twelve years carried 
on farming and tanning together. In 
1 89 1 he sold out his tannery and varied 
agricultural pursuits with dealing in 
real estate and building and selling 
houses. Subsequently he was also a 
coal dealer. He has filled a number of 
positions in his township, but never ran for an important office before being 
nominated for member of the House. In the campaign which followed he 
demonstrated the great popularity he enjoys among those acquainted with 
him. In fact his election was due to the esteem in which he is held at his 
home and vicinity. In Ljttlestown Borough, where he transacts most of his 
business, he had 221 majority, while General Hastings led Mr. Singerly 27 
votes for Governor. In Germany Township, in which Mr. Duttera resides, 
he received 205 of the 222 votes cast for members of the House. He 
was elected by 123 majority in the county, while every other Democrat on 
the ticket was defeated, the Democratic candidate for Congress by 622 and 
the Democratic candidate for Judge by 7S5. Mr. Duttera was a member of 
the Committees on Elections, Municipal Corporations, Manufactures and 
Accounts. He is one of the most popular members of the House. 





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PHILIP E. WOMELSDORF, of Centre 
County, was born in Pottsville, Pa., 
September 17, 1859. He attended the 
common schools of that town and gradu- 
ated from them in 1876. One year of his 
life was spent in a business college, after 
which he devoted another year to the in- 
spection of tanneries in Warren County 
with a view of engaging in the tanning 
business. In 1878 he entered the mining 
engineering office of his brother, A. J. 
Womelsdorf, and that of the Girard estate, 
with headquarters in Pottsville. He re- 
mained in his native place, following the 
profession of mining engineer, until 1S82, 
when he removed to Houtzdale, Clearfield 
County, Pa. After residing at Houtzdale 
and Osceola a short time he made his home 
at Phillipsburg, Centre County, where he still resides. Since his residence 
in this thriving coal town he has prosecuted mining engineering and at pres- 
ent has charge of about forty-five mines. Before his nomination in 1894 he 
had been a member of Council for two years, which position he resigned after 
his election as a member of the House. The Democrats of Centre supposed 
they had an unusually good organization and expected to elect their candi- 
dates for the Legislature, but Mr. Womelsdorf and his Republican colleague 
were chosen by a majority of over 500. In the House Mr. Womelsdorf made 
a very favoiable impression on February 14, 1895, by attacking extravagance 
involved in legislation to increase the number of public employees and to add 
to the salaries of others. He served on the Committees on Labor and Indus- 
try, Iron and Coal, Constitutional Reform and Centennial Affairs. 






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ENRY H. MULLIN, the member 
from Cameron County, was born in 
Carlisle, Cumberland County, January 
24, 1 85 1. After receiving an ordinary 
education in the common schools of that 
town, he removed to Mount Carmel, 
Northumberland County, where he 
worked as a slate picker two years at the 
Montelious colliery. From that place, 
in 1866, he went to Emporium, Cameron 
County, and entered the office of the 
Cameron County Press, established by 
C. B. Gould, to whom he subsequently 
became son-in-law. After working in the 
establishment several years, Mr. Mullin 
was made the Business Manager of the 
paper, which position he still retains. 
He was six years Clerk to the Com- 
missioners of Cameron County, eight years Clerk to Councils and twelve 
years Chairman and Secretary of the Republican County Committee. He 
was also a member of the Republican State Committee several years, and has 
always taken a prominent part in the polities of his adopted county. In 
1 89 1 he was a Messenger in the House and in 1893 one of the Transcribing 
Clerks of that body. His first elective office of any consequence was that of 
member of the Legislature. Mr. Mullin was a member of the Judiciary 
Local and other Committees. He was one of the most industrious members 
and was greatly assisted in his legislative work by the experience he has 
had as an employee of the House. Mr. Mullin did not often participate in 
debate, but when he did discuss subjects of legislation he spoke to the point. 
He was a quiet but effective worker, and secured the passage of important 
measures in which his constituents were greatly interested, and took partic- 
ular interest in having his county properly taken care of in the judicial ap- 
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H. RUTTER. of Lycoming County, 
was born in Wilmington, Delaware, 
June 13, [851. In addition to receiving 
a common school education he attended 
the Bloomsburg Literary Institute. He 
taught school in that town in 1874, but, 
his mind running in a newspaper direc- 
tion, he learned the printing business in 
the office of the Bloomsburg Columbian. 
Three years were devoted to the acquire- 
ment of the trade, when he became an 
employee of the morning Standard in 
Williamsport, on which paper he re- 
mained two years. Next he became pub- 
lisher and one of the proprietors of the 
Shickshinny Mountain Echo. In 1877 
he was foreman and city editor of the 
daily and weekly Banner at Carthage, 
Missouri. Subsequently he assisted in the establishment of a Democratic 
daily newspaper at Atlantic, Iowa. In June, 1883, Mr. Rutter purchased 
the Hughesville weekly Enterprise and after issuing three numbers changed 
its name to the Hughesville Mail, under which it has been successfully con- 
ducted by him since. He is actively identified with the business interests ot 
Hughesville and is Secretary of its Board of Trade. During the first admin- 
istration of President Cleveland he held the position of Postmaster in that 
town. He is an active Democratic politician, was a delegate to the State 
Convention in 1889 and his newspaper is the organ of that Party in the 
lower end of Lycoming County. In 1892 he was a candidate for the House 
and came within five votes of being nominated. In 1894 he was named on 
the Democratic ticket for the same position and was easily nominated. 
While he had a hard fight for election, owing to the general demoralization 
of the Democratic Party, he was chosen by a small majority. The other 
two Democratic candidates sustained defeat in the general political wreck. 
Dr. J. C. Rutter, who has been in active practice in Bloomsburg for forty 
years, is the father of Mr. Rutter, and the latter's wife is a daughter of 
Colonel W. F. Cloud, of Missouri. As a legislator Representative Rutter 
has made a good record. He served on the Committees on Printing, Fish 
and Game, Judicial Apportionment and Compare Bills. 



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CHARLES WILSON HERMANN, of 
Snyder County, was born in Penn 
Township, the same county, November 2, 
1856. His father was a farmer and the 
son naturally followed the same occupa- 
tion in his youth. His early education 
was obtained in the common schools and 
teachers' normal courses. After teaching 
seven terms he entered the Sophomore 
class of Missionary Institute, Selins- 
grove, Pennsylvania, in the fall term of 
1880. He attended this institution three 
years and was graduated from it with dis- 
tinction. In 1883, in order to complete 
a full classical course of education, he 
entered the Junior class of Bucknell Uni- 
versity, Lewisburg, and in 1885 was 
graduated with the degree of A. B. While 
in this institution he won several prizes in oratorical contests. With the 
completion of his education he began a second period of teaching at Potts- 
grove, Pennsylvania, and the next year taught school in Adamsburg, Penn- 
sylvania. In May, 1887, he was elected Superintendent of the public schools 
of Snyder County, and in 1890, at the expiration of his term, re-elected. He 
has always been a member of the Republican Party, to which his father was 
also devotedly attached. In 1894 he was nominated by his part} 7 as its candi- 
date for member of the House of Representatives, and so sure were his poli- 
tical opponents of a crushing defeat if they pitted a man against him that he 
was permitted to have a walk over, no one contesting his election. Mr. Her- 
mann was one of the most intelligent and industrious members. He was 
useful in committee and on the floor of the House appeared to no disad- 
vantage with old members and experienced talkers. He served on the Com- 
mittees on Education, Bureau of Statistics, Centennial Affairs and Con- 
stitutional Reform. 





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GRANT NEWBURY, one of the Rep- 
resentatives from Northumberland 
County, was born in the town of North- 
umberland, February 2, 1853. He at- 
tended the public schools, and his father 
having been a member of the Fifth 
Pennsylvania Reserves he also took 
advantage of the educational and other 
privileges which the Soldiers' Orphan 
Schools afforded. While quite young he 
attended a College of Pharmacy in Phila- 
delphia. In 1869 he entered a drug 
store in Northumberland and has con- 
ducted the business ever since. He was 
deputy postmaster in his town eight 
years during the administration of Presi- 
dents Hayes and Garfield. He was a 
School Director two terms and Secretary 
of the Board three years. Four times he was a delegate to the Republican 
State Conventions. He was a candidate for the Legislature eight years ago, 
but as the political conditions were then unfavorable to the Republicans in 
Northumberland County he was defeated. In 1894 he had no trouble in 
capturing the Republican nomination and was easily elected. He devoted 
himself conscientiously to the duties of his position in the House, and if he 
did not satisfy his constituents it was not because he failed to try to faithfully 
represent them. He was a member of the Committees on City Passenger 
Railways, Federal Relations, Retrenchment and Reform and Pensions and 
Gratuities. 




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GEORGE HOPWOOD, of Fayette 
County, was born in South Union 
Township, in the same county, August 
24, 1S45. Several years education in the 
public schools was supplemented by a 
course in Madison College, Uniontown. 
He has been a farmer all his life and at 
the session showed great interest in legis- 
lation affecting agricultural interests. 
He was particularly antagonistic to the 
bills which sought material change of 
the law prohibiting the manufacture and 
sale of oleomargarine and supported all 
legislation which he supposed would 
inure to the benefit of the farmers of the 
Commonwealth and its public school 
system. He was nine years a School 
Director in his township and Secretary 
of the Board eight. In 1S90 he was Census Enumerator in his district. 
He was Master ot the first Pomona Grange in Fayette County and is 
serving his second term as a member of the State Board of Agriculture. 
Governor Pattison appointed Mr. Hopwood a delegate to the Farmers' 
National Congress, which met in West Virginia, October, 1894. He was 
elected to the House by a majority of 2,139 over his highest Democratic 
competitor and served on the Committees on Public Health and Sanitation, 
Legislative Apportionment, Centennial Affairs and Compare Bills. 




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7EBSTER CLAY WEISS, of North- 



ampton County, was born in Weiss- 
port, Carbon County, Pa., September 23, 
1853. His paternal great-grandfather 
was Colonel Jacob Weiss, a native of 
Virginia, where he was educated as a 
surveyor. When a young man he came 
to Pennsylvania and settled in Carbon 
County on the present site of Weissport, 
which was named for him. At that early 
period it was a fort. He served in the 
Revolutionary War and was Quartermas- 
ter General of the army with the rank of 
Colonel. He was a scientist and geolo- 
gist, and the utilization of anthracite coal 
as a fuel was due to him. Webster Clay 
Weiss was reared and educated in Weiss- 
port, attending the schools during the 
winter months only. At twelve years of age he was thrown on his own 
resources, as he was deprived by death of his father's care, and afterwards 
he and his brother were obliged to support the family. He commenced his 
business career by driving mules on the gravel bank for the Lehigh Coal 
and Navigation Company. He worked his way from this lowly position to 
that of boating agent of the company, with which he had been connected 
since boyhood. In 1885 he resigned his position to accept that of sales-agent 
for the wholesale coal firm of Whitney 6c Kemmerer, taking charge of their 
Mauch Chunk office, which position he still holds. The political career of 
Mr. Weiss has been remarkable. When only twenty-one years of age he was 
placed on the Republican ticket for Auditor and elected by a handsome 
majority. Three years later, when only twenty-four years of age, he was 
nominated for Justice of the Peace and after a severe contest was elected by 
a flattering majority. A few years later he was nominated for School Di- 
rector and was again elected, became the Secretary of the Board and in this 
capacitv advised the Board to adopt a uniform system of text books and pay 
for the same out of the district treasury. This was done and his arrest fol- 
lowed for misappropriation of public funds. He was indicted by the grand 
jury on this charge, but the late Judge Dreher decided in his favor and since 
then the State has provided for free text books. Mr. Weiss is the first Re- 
publican Representative of the House ever elected from his county on a 
straight ticket and was the only successful candidate on the ticket last fall. 
Mr. Weiss is a member of the Republican County Committee, as well as a 
member of the State Committee and of many fraternal societies, and 
takes an active interest in their welfare, delivering many lectures and 
addresses for the various Orders to which he belongs. He is held in high 
esteem in his home and has a bright political future. He served on the 
Committees on Education, Corporations, Bureau of Statistics and Public 
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ALVIN J. KERN, of Lehigh Comity, 
who enjoys the distinction of rep- 
resenting, with two other Republicans, a 
county which has never before elected a 
Republican to the House, was born in 
Slatington, Pennsylvania, March 28, 
1S65. The place was originally settled 
by the Kern family, who came from the 
Palatinate, Germany, in 1 74 1 . After 
finishing a public school course at Slat- 
ington he taught one term in Washington 
Township, Lehigh County. In 1885 he 
was graduated from the Ursinus College, 
at Collegeville, Montgomery County, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
Three years later he was given the hon- 
orary degree of Master of Science. In 
1888 he was graduated from the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1891 took a summer 
course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. He is a member of the Lehigh 
County Medical Society and the Lehigh Valley Medical Association. He is 
located at Slatington, where he has established a good medical practice. In 
that town he has served two successive terms as School Director. In 1893 he 
was married to Miss Emma J. Schaeffer, of Whitehall Township, Lehigh 
County, and has one child, born on the anniversary of his birthday. Dr. 
Kern is actively identified with the Republican Party and in 1894 was 
selected by it as one of three Republican candidates to make the race for the 
House. As Lehigh has been known as one of the most reliable Democratic 
counties in the State very few people supposed that the Republicans had 
any show of winning, but the entire House delegation of the party triumphed 
by a good majority. Dr. Kern was a member of the Committees on Public 
Health and Sanitation, Fish and Game, Elections and Bureau of Statistics. 
He introduced and exerted himself to the utmost to have passed a bill pro- 
viding for the appointment of inspectors of slate quarries, in which his 
constituents were largely interested, and the purpose of which was to insure 
protection from injury and death to workers in quarries. While Dr. Kern 
did not figure as a debater he gave close and intelligent attention to all his 
duties. 



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DWARD POWELL GOULD, the 
member of the House from Krie City, 
County of. Krie, was born in Springfield, 
in that county, March 6, 1834. Much of 
his early life was devoted to agriculture 
in the vicinity of his birth. After receiv- 
ing an ordinary education in the common 
schools he attended the Kingsville Acad- 
emy, Ohio, the West Springfield Academy, 
Erie County, and the University of Roches- 
ter, New York, from which he graduated 
in the fall of 1859. He read law in that 
city with J. D. Husbands until the spring 
of 1 86 1, when he enlisted as a private in 
Company E, Twenty-seventh New York 
Volunteers, commanded by Col. Slocum, 
who afterward became a Major General 
in the United States Army. On the or- 
ganization of the regiment Mr. Gould was elected its Second Lieutenant. He 
served until the expiration of his term, having been mustered out at the expi- 
ration of his term on May 21, 1863, as Captain, after having participated in 
all the battles in which the regiment took part. Being connected with the 
Army of the Potomac he was in the first Bull Run battle. He was commis- 
sioned by the Governor of New York September, 1863, to raise a regiment for 
the Union Army. After having performed some work in that direction, but 
before the regiment was organized, he was commissioned by the United States 
Government to take charge of the recruiting service in Western New York, 
with headquarters in Rochester, in the performance of which duties he con- 
tinued until January 1, 1865. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits and 
continued in that business about two years. In 1867 he began the practice 
of law in Rochester and kept it up until January 1, 1S72, when he was 
appointed chief clerk in the office of Secretary of State of New York, which 
position he held two years, when the success of the Democratic Party com- 
pelled his retirement. Mr. Gould resumed the practice of law in Albany, 
where he was specially employed to represent certain corporate interests. In 
1875 he removed to Erie City, in which place he has practiced law ever since. 
He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 
by a plurality of 81 1 in a city normally Democratic. Mr. Gould is a trustee 
of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home of Erie and was appointed by Speaker 
Walton a member of the committee to investigate the management of the 
Norristown and Wernersville insane hospitals. He is also a graduate of the 
Albany Law School and had the degree of Master of Arts conferred upon 
him by his Alma Mater in 1863. He is also an active and influential mem- 
ber of the G. A. R., and is a member of the U. Y. L. Among the Commit- 
tees on which he served is the Judiciary General. Mr. Gould is a ready 
debater, and on a number of important questions of legislation made a marked 
impression as a cogent l'easoner. 



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D. TIFFANY, the Representative 



*J(P^ County, enjoys the distinction of having 

M been elected in a small county, of uncer- 

tain political faith, by a large majority. 
He was born in Lenox Township, Sus- 
quehanna County, September 10, 1846, 
and his ancestors settled in Harford Town- 
ship, in the same county, arriving at their 
Pennsylvania destination with the aid of 
ox teams, over 100 years ago. Represen- 
tative Tiffany obtained part of his educa- 
tion in the Harford Academy, which in- 
stitution Galusha A. Grow and Charles 
R. Buckalew attended. Mr. Tiffany de- 
feated for the Legislature Dr. Eno S. 
Wheeler, a popular Democrat of Nichol- 
son Borough, in which Wyoming's Rep- 
resentative resides. He has been prominently identified with Republican 
politics for many years and has filled the positions of School Director and 
Councilman in his town. He has been engaged in the wholesale stone busi- 
ness for the past twelve years, and prior to embarking in it was a postal clerk 
between Binghampton and New York City for ten years. His brother, S. L- 
Tiffany, started the first Republican paper in Wyoming County, the Tunk- 
hannock Republican, which has been published ever since, although now in 
other hands. Mr. Tiffany is the father of C. P. Tiffany, who has just com- 
pleted a course for the ministry at Madison Drew Seminary. The member 
from Wyoming served on the Legislative Apportionment, Vice and Immor- 
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H. MARTIN, one of the members 
from Clarion County, was born 
in Ashland Township, in that comity, 
May i, 1844. His father was of Ger- 
man ancestry and in [802 settled on a 
tract of land on a portion of which 
Representative Martin resides. During 
the War of [812 the elder Martin fought 
for his adopted country against the 
British. For forty years he was a 
Justice of the Peace of Ashland Town- 
ship. Representative Martin received 
his early education in the common 
schools of Clarion County and subse- 
quently at the Edinboro' State Normal 
School. He has filled the principal 
offices in his township and last Novem- 
ber was elected as a Democrat to the 
House of Representatives, receiving the highest vote of any candidate on 
his ticket except the Democratic nominee for Sheriff. During the War of 
the Rebellion he served in the Union Army. He has been an oil producer for 
twenty years and is still engaged in the business. During that time he has 
given much attention to agricultural pursuits , has occupied the position of 
Master of the Grange of his township for several terms and is now County 
Deputy of the Order. At the late session of the Legislature Mr. Martin 
made two speeches against the passage of the Marshall bill to repeal the law 
prohibiting the consolidation of competing pipe line companies, which he 
declared would be ruinous to the oil interests in Pennsylvania because of 
the opportunities it would give the Standard Oil Company to drive out com- 
petition by absorbing its rival pipe line. Mr. Martin also took a prominent 
stand against the repeal of the law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
oleomargarine. He was a member of the Committees on Education, Agri- 
culture and Labor and Industry- 




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OHN KNOX PATTERSON, one of 
the Representatives from Blair 
County, was born September 15, 1856, 
in Newry, that county. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at an 
early age began teaching school. About 
fifteen years ago he removed to Altoona, 
where he has since been residing. After 
teaching he was a locomotive fireman on 
the Pennsylvania Railroad two years. 
From 1884 to 1887 he read law with 
Judge Dean of the State Supreme Court, 
and in the latter year was admitted to 
practice at the bar of Blair County. 
While preparing himself for the legal 
profession he also at various times taught 
school. He has served four years in the 
Councils of Altoona, and was twice Pres- 
ident of Select and once of Common Council. Being an active politician 
and a good organizer he was elected Chairman of the Republican County 
Committee of Blair in 1893. He was a delegate from his county to the State 
Convention which nominated Delamater for Governor, and his was the first 
vote given for General Hastings in that body. He was nominated for the 
House in 1894 by an almost unanimous vote, only one district having sup- 
ported another candidate. At the election in the November following he 
and his colleague carried every district in the county, Mr. Patterson by 
pluralities ranging from about 4,800 to 5,000. While he had no special 
interest in any legislation he gave all important bills his careful and intelli- 
gent attention. He served on the Committees on Judiciary General, Pen- 
sions and Gratuities, Library and Retrenchment and Reform. 






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k AVID WEST, one of the two Repub- 
licans representing Reading in the 
House, was born in Philadelphia, March 
27, 1855. He attended the public schools 
in that city and learned the trade of stove 
moulding. Having become enamored of 
the beauties of Berks County's capital he 
removed to it and has made his home 
there ever since. He is now in the em- 
ploy of Orr, Painter & Co., of that city, 
one of the largest stove manufacturing- 
firms in the United States. He is of 
Scotch descent and has been unwavering 
in his fidelity to Republican principles. 
He has been a delegate to the Republican 
State Convention and figured actively 
in local politics. Ex-Representatives 
Laucks and Goodhart having been elected 
in 1893 by over 1,000 majority, as candidates on the Democratic ticket for 
the House, the fight for the succession seemed hopeless, but Mr. West, with 
his colleague, decided to enter the race with the heretofore successful can- 
didates and triumphed with ease, defeating them by about 600 plurality. 
Mr. West never held any political position except the one to which his con- 
stituents elected him in 1894. He served on the Committees on Vice and 
Immorality, Pensions and Gratuities, Bureau of Statistics and Constitutional 
Reform. He has been one of the active members ol the House and made 
himself useful wherever opportunity offered. 




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Theodore McAllister, of 
Adams County, was born in Cum- 
berland Township, that county, Feb- 
ruary 5, 1842, about one mile south of 
Gettysburg. During the great battle of 
Gettysburg the McAllister homestead 
was the scene of terrific fighting between 
the Union and Rebel troops, but the sub- 
ject of this sketch was then serving his 
country in the army of West Virginia. 
He was not permitted to enjoy any other 
educational advantages than those obtain- 
able in the common schools. On July 
27. 1 86 1, he enlisted in the First Batal- 
lion, Maryland Cavalry, and re-entered 
the army for three years more, from 
February 14, 1864, but before the close 
of the second enlistment the war had 
ended. Mr. McAllister participated in many battles. He entered the ser- 
vice as a private and emerged from it as the color sergeant of his regiment. 
He was slightly wounded. At New Market he was taken prisoner by the 
Rebels. Mr. McAllister has for the past twenty -six years been operating a 
farm about five miles from Gettysburg, during which time he has filled 
nearly all the township offices. Eight years ago he was the Republican 
candidate for the State Senate in the Adams-Cumberland District, but the 
Democratic majority in the district was then overwhelming, and William A. 
Martin was elected by a good majority. Although not a debater he has 
made a creditable legislator. He is the head of a family of eight children. 
He served on the Committees on Judiciary Local, Library, Geological Sur- 
veys and Bureau of Statistics. 





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J. HARSHAW, one of the Repre- 
sentatives from Mercer Count}-, was 
born in Jamestown, that county, March 
7, 1 84 1. He received his education in the 
common schools and in the Jamestown 
Seminary. He was reared on a farm and 
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits 
during a large portion of his minority. At 
tlie age of 20, in 1861, he enlisted in the 
Eighty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers, and served about two years in the 
Army of the Potomac, participating in the 
great battles of Gaines' Mills and Malvern 
Hill, among others in which General Mc- 
Clellan's command took part. Mr. Har- 
shaw, on his honorable discharge from the 
military service, entered the mercantile 
business in Armstrong County, in which 
he continued more than twenty years. In 1884 he returned to his native 
county, and after having filled several local offices was, in 1890, elected a 
member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after one of the most 
notable campaigns in the county. Mr. Harshaw was chosen by a good sized 
majority, but a number of other candidates on the Republican ticket were 
defeated. He served in the Legislature of 1891 with James S. Fruit, who is 
now Senator, and John Hines, a Democrat. At the election in November, 
1894, Mr. Harshaw was chosen by a plurality of about 2,900. He was a 
member of the Committees on Corporations, Judiciary Local and Mines and 
Mining. He is one on the large list of members of the House who are not 
g;iven to discussion. But while speaking is not his forte he gave legislation 
in committee and 011 the floor his careful attention. 




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EORGE W. ELLIS, of Lebanon 
County, was born in Jonestown, 
Lebanon County, April n, 1850, and at- 
tended the common schools and Swatara 
Institute in his native town. At an 
early age he was apprenticed to the 
blacksmithing trade, at which business 
he worked five years, when he entered 
Light's Rolling Mill in Lebanon and re- 
mained in charge of a train in the sheet 
mill until seven years had elapsed. He 
then resumed blacksmithing in Jones- 
town and continued at it until nominated 
by the Republican Party as one of its 
candidates for the Legislature, to which 
he was elected by the tremendous plu- 
rality of about 3,200. Mr. Ellis was 
mercantile appraiser of Lebanon County 
over twenty years ago. He has been Burgess of his town and for twelve 
years a member of its Council, with which he still is connected. He has 
been a member of the Lebanon Republican County Committee, and has for 
many years taken an active part in the politics of his county. In 1894 he 
was nominated after a spirited contest, but received the largest vote in the 
convention of any of the candidates on the Republican ticket. He was a 
member of the Committees on Printing, Geological Survey and Iron and 
Coal, and served his constituents with fidelity. 




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JOHN McGAUGHEY, of Indiana 
J County, was born in Armstrong 
Township, of the same county, April 
4, 1842. Until the outbreak of the War 
of the Rebellion he worked on his 
father's farm. Long before he reached 
his majority his patriotism carried him 
into the Union Army. He enlisted in 
Company K, One Hundred and Fifth 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sep- 
tember, 1 86 1, and served continuously 
until July, 1865, although wounded 
three times. At the battle of Fair 
Oaks, Virginia, May 31, 1862, he was 
wounded in the right arm. He re- 
joined his command in August and 
participated in all the battles and skirm- 
ishes of his regiment until July 2, 1863, 
when he was again wounded in the right hand and side, near the famous 
Sherfey house on the battlefield of Gettysburg. In the following Septem- 
ber he returned to his regiment. On May 5, 1864, he was injured the third 
time, having received a wound in the right knee in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness. On August 14, 1864, he again cast his fortunes with his regiment, 
which was then in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He remained with it 
until mustered out of service in July, 1865. From October 27, 1864, Mr. 
McGaughey was color sergeant of his regiment and carried the colors until 
the close of the war. Each time he was wounded he joined the army before 
his injuries had been healed. On his return to his home he followed the 
occupation of farming ten years, but his wounds compelled him to abandon 
it, and he removed to Indiana, his present place of residence, and engaged 
in the real estate business, which he has actively prosecuted since 1878. 
He served two terms as a member of Council of the Borough of West 
Indiana, was elected twice as Commander of Indiana Post No. 28, G. A. R., 
and filled one term as Colonel of Encampment No. 11, Union Veteran 
Legion. In November, 1894, he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania 
House of Representatives by nearly 3,700 plurality. Mr. McGaughey was 
one of the most popular Representatives of that body and Indiana County 
was well served by him in his legislative capacity. 



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~] JOHN \V. KING, one of the members 
J of the House from Lycoming County, 
was born in Northumberland County, 
February 16, 1846. When very young 
he worked in a grist mill, and at the age 
of fourteen years began farming. For 
five years he devoted his time to this 
occupation except the part he utilized in 
securing a common school education. 
He taught school twenty-four years con- 
secutively, until 1889, when he embarked 
in the lumbering business. In March, 
1S65, when he had attained the age of 
nineteen years, he entered the army, con- 
necting himself with Company K, Eighty- 
eighth Regiment, recruited in Philadel- 
phia. Owing to the heavy floods which 
prevailed at that time he did not parcici- 
pate in any battle, but others who had preceded him on his march toward 
Petersburg, Virginia, the scene of a great conflict, were in the thickest of the 
fight. He was mustered out of service about four months after he had 
enlisted because of the close of the war. Mr. King has resided in Millcreek 
Township, Lycoming County, for the past thirty-four years, and has filled a 
number of local offices to which his constituents elected him. His great- 
grandfather on his mother's side was a Revolutionary soldier, and his 
paternal great-grandfather came to this country from England. Mr. King 
was much interested in the passage of the Forestry Bill and as strongly 
opposed to the Marshall Pipe Line Bill. He was a member of the Commit- 
tees on Agriculture, Bureau of Statistics, Geological Survey and Constitu- 
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1A. BURRELL, one of the members 
_y. of the House from Mercer County, 
was born June 26, [856, near Bellefonte, 
Centre County. He supplemented an 
education received in the common 
schools in the Gettysburg College, from 
which institution he graduated in 1S74 
with honors. He taught school for five 
years in Pennsylvania and New York, 
most of the time in seminaries preparing 
students for college. In 1880 he was 
employed by the Atlantic Iron Works, at 
Charon. Mercer County, Pa., and his ser- 
vices were so satisfactory that while he 
was originally its correspondent, he was 
honored with promotions several times, 
and in iSSS was made manager of the 
concern, which place he still holds. He 
has been a member of the Republican Committee of Mercer County, and 
in [888 President of the Sharon Republican Club. He was School Director 
in that town from [888 to 1894. As a party worker he has always been 
fighting in the front ranks and as a stumper has done effective work. In 
the last gubernatorial campaign he made speeches all through his county, 
and had the satisfaction of receiving a plurality of nearly 3,000 as one of the 
Republican candidates for the Legislature. Mr. Burrell took a conspicuous 
part in educational matters, particularly the Compulsory Education Bill, 
making one of the best speeches in favor of it delivered on that subject. 
In the early part of the session he made an address to the old soldiers of the 
Senate and House in the Supreme Court room, and was elected an honorary 
member of their association, formed soon after the organization of the 
House. Among other Committees he served on were those of Banks, Edu- 
cation and Iron and Coal. 







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JOHN H. MARSHALL, one of the 
Representatives from Chester County, 
was born in East Marlborough Town- 
ship, that county, January 19, 1841. He 
received his education in the public 
schools, Millersville Normal School and 
Dearfield Academy, Massachusetts, and 
Kennett Square, Unionville and Ercil- 
doun Academies in Pennsylvania. In 
the latter ex -Congressman Smedley Dar- 
lington was his preceptor. Mr. Marshall 
began farming when eighteen years old 
and has been engaged in the avocation 
the greater portion of his life. In 1S64 
he became the possessor of his father's 
farm in East Marlborough Township, 
Chester County, containing about one 
hundred and fifty acres of laud. He 
still owns this property but lives retired at Unionville. Mr. Marshall never 
filled any important office before he assumed the duties of a member of the 
House, but has been honored with local positions at his home. His majority 
over his Democratic opponents at the election of 1894 was about 5,300. He 
was a member of the Committees on Judicial Apportionment, Vice and 
Immorality, Geological Survey and Library. Mr. Marshall was highly 
esteemed by his legislative associates and faithfully performed the duties of 
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/^ FORGE GRIFFITHS, of McKean 
V J County, was horn in Wales, February 
i i, 1849, and was brought to this coun- 
try by his parents when lit was thirteen 
months old. His family located in 
Hopewell Township, Bedford County, 
where his father, having been a practical 
miner, worked in the coal mines in that 
vicinity. As soon as he was old enough 
his son George followed his example, but 
at an early age the latter's patriotic ardor 
induced him to enter the Union Army. 
Not having reached the age of fifteen 
years he was not permitted to enlist until 
he had made several efforts to enroll 
himself among the soldiers of the War of 
the Rebellion. In June, 1864, his am- 
bition was realized by securing a place 
in Company H, One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, which was attached to the Second Brigade, Third Division and Fifth 
Corps. He was all through the Wilderness fight and was present at Appo- 
mattox when General Lee surrendered to General Grant and the great war 
ended. After having been connected with the Army of the Potomac over a 
year young Griffiths was mustered out or service July 17, 1865, in Harris- 
burg. He was barefooted when he received his discharge, some one having 
stolen his shoes while he was bathing in the Susquehanna river. He after- 
ward worked on the railroad and later secured a position as locomotive 
engineer on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. He also served in that 
capacity on the Pittsburg and Western. In 1890 he was appointed Post- 
master at Kane by President Harrison and served until August 31, 1894. ^ n 
the same year Mr. Griffiths was nominated as one of the Republican candi- 
dates for member of the House, defeating Representative Burdick after a 
hotly contested fight. Mr. Griffiths served on the Committees on Military, 
Public Health and Sanitation, Fish and Game and Coal and Iron. His 
record is reflected in close attention to committee and other legislative 
duties. 






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'RANK J. GROVER, who represents 
the Third District of Lackawanna 
County, was born in Northampton County, 
June 20, 1845. At fourteen years of age, 
after having attended the public schools 
in his neighborhood, he began working 
among fanners. When the South precipi- 
tated the Rebellion, in 1861, he was not 
sixteen years old, but he nevertheless 
was anxious to enter the service of his 
country. He pleaded with his parents 
to allow him to shoulder a musket to 
assist in saving the Union, but they re- 
fused at first to grant him the request be- 
cause of his youth. In July, 1862, the 
One Hundred and Fifty-third regiment 
was recruited in Northampton County, 
and young Grover made another appeal 
to his parents to permit him to enlist in the Union Army. Consent was given, 
and he joined the regiment, which was attached to the Eleventh corps. He 
took part, among others, in the battles of Chaucellorsville and Gettysburg. 
In both these conflicts the regiment occupied important points. In the latter 
battle the regiment lost on the first day's fight in killed, wounded and missing 
211 of the 545 men engaged in it. What remained of the regiment on the 
second and third day of the great conflict occupied the base of East Cemetery 
Hill , where it helped to repulse the Louisiana Tigers at sundown July 2 . After 
the retreat of General Lee and his defeated army the young soldier was deput- 
ed to search houses in Gettysburg for rebels. He discovered a sharpshooter 
of the Confederate Army in one of the houses, captured him and marched him 
to headquarters in the square of the town. He was soon after promoted to the 
position of Sergeant, which position he filled when his regiment was mustered 
out of service. After the war he took a course in the Alleutown Seminary. 
He then became time-keeper and paymaster in the employ of Grover & Mil- 
ler (the former of whom was his father, ) railroad contractors. Frank Grover 
subsequently embarked in the contracting and lumbering business. Fifteen 
years ago he located in Lackawanna County and has since been engaged suc- 
cessfully in the lumber business. He is an active member in the Grand 
Army of the Republic and has regularly represented his post at the State en- 
campments. He served on the Committees on Banking, Legislative Ap- 
portionment, Iron and Coal and Military. He exhibited the same fidelity to 
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pEORGE W. RHOADS, of Northum- 
\J berland County, was born in New- 
ville, Cumberland County, August i, 
1845. In the fall ot 1856, when the 
Presidential campaign which culminated 
in the election of James Buchanan was 
at its height, he removed to New Cum- 
berland, and two years afterward to Har- 
risburg, where he clerked in Dock 6c 
Shisler's grocery store for one year. 
Before leaving his native county Mr. 
Rhoads attended different schools, in- 
cluding the first Normal School in the 
State. In 1859 he entered Denlinger's 
School at White Hall, Cumberland 
County. In i860 he started the car- 
pentering trade with Musser <S: James, at 
New Cumberland. On July 4, 1861, he 
enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He 
was then not quite sixteen years old. His service in the Union Army cov- 
ered a period of four years and twenty days. On July 25, 1865, at the close 
of the Rebellion, he was honorably discharged. On his return to his home 
he became a brakeman, and subsequently a conductor, on the Northern 
Central Railroad between Baltimore and Sunbun ■. After nine months' rail- 
roading he returned to his trade and for twenty-three years was employed at 
Trullinger & Co.'s planing mill in Harrisburg. From 1872 to 1888 he had 
charge of the establishment. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Har- 
risburg School Board and held his place in that body until 1888. In 1884 
he was President of the Board. In 1888 he left Harrisburg for Bloomsburg, 
where he assumed charge of the School Furnishing Company of that town. 
Two years afterward he became a partner of William Witmer & Sons in 
Sunbury. In 1891 the firm sold the mill and erected a wholesale planing 
mill at Herndon. Mr. Rhoads was manager and treasurer of it for many 
years and was recently promoted to president and manager. In November, 
1894, he was elected a member of the House from the usually Democratic 
county of Northumberland by the large majority of 996. He served on the 
Committees on Judiciary Local, Pensions and Gratuities, Geological Survey 
and Bureau of Statistics. Mr. Rhoads was assiduous in his attention to 
committee work, was one of the most punctual members of the House and 
readily adapted himself to his legislative duties. 



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T LOYD WAGNER WKLLIYER, of 
JL/ Montour County, was born in Wash- 
ington ville, the same county, December 
22, 1859. When he was four years old 
his parents removed to Danville, where 
Mr. Welliver received his education. At 
an early age he showed an inclination for 
the mercantile business and naturally 
adapted himself to it. At the age of 
twenty-three years, in 1883, he removed 
to Exchange, Montour County, and en- 
gaged in the business of his choice, 
becoming proprietor of a general store at 
that place. Since then he has been 
prosecuting a prosperous business. Mr. 
Welliver has not seen much of public life, 
but the first time he came before the 
people of his county for their support 
in a political fight he made a gratifying record. His popularity was par- 
ticularly shown at his home. The village in which he resides is located in 
Anthony Township, which gave him 192 majority in a total poll of 229 
votes as the Democratic candidate for member of the House of 1895. This 
large home vote was secured when the Democratic Party was everywhere 
suffering from the effects of hard times and divisions in the organization. 
Mr. Welliver was Postmaster under the administrations of Presidents Gar- 
field, Cleveland and Harrison at Exchange, serving satisfactorily under all. 
As a member of the House he has shown great capacity for work and filled 
all the committee positions to which he was assigned by Speaker Walton 
with ability. He served on the Committees on Mines, Mining, Military, 
Library and Compare Bills. Mr. Welliver was married in 1885 to Emily,, 
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EU. EATON, Potter Comity's Repre- 
. sentative in the House, was born 
August 17, 1S44, in Andover, Allegany 
County, New York. He received a 
limited education in the common schools 
in his vicinity, attending them in the 
winter months and working on the farm 
in summer. When between fifteen and 
sixteen years old lie entered Alfred 
University, in Allegany County, and re- 
mained a student of it over two years. 
After teaching school in winter for 
several years he began the study of 
medicine with Dr. \V. W. Craudall, at 
Andover. He subsequently attended the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 
taking two lecture courses at the insti- 
tute. He received the degree of M. D. 
from the University of Buffalo, New York, and has been actively practicing 
his profession since that time at Ulysses, Potter County, covering a period 
of twenty-eight years. Representative Eaton has served in several local 
positions at his home, but the first time he ran for any important office was 
in November, 1N94, when he was elected to the House of Representatives 
of Pennsylvania by a comfortable majority, although a determined fight had 
been made against him by those opposed to the law which has prohibited 
the sale of intoxicating liquors in Potter County for over thirty vears. He 
was opposed by ex- Representative Metzger, who was elected in 1892 on the 
issue on which it was proposed to defeat Dr. Eaton two years afterward. 
Representative Eaton was a member of the United States Pension Examining 
Board of Potter County during the administration of President Harrison- 
He is a member of the Committees on Bureau of Statistics, Public Buildings 
and Grounds and Judiciary Local. 





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EMERSON COLLINS, one of the 
i members from Lycoming County, 
was born in Hepburn Township, the 
same county, April 30, i860. After re- 
ceiving the usual common school educa- 
tion he attended the normal schools at 
Montoursville and Muncy. After teach- 
ing several terms in Lycoming County 
Mr. Collins entered Lafayette College. 
He remained in that institution four years, 
until 1884, when he graduated in the 
classical course with honors. He subse- 
quently taught in the Lycoming Normal 
School and became its Principal. Re- 
signing this position he entered the law 
office of H. C. Parsons at Williamsport, 
and in 1887 was admitted to practice at 
the bar of Lycoming County. He was 
Chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1889 and in 1890 
was a delegate to the Republican State Convention which nominated Dela- 
mater for Governor. In that convention Mr. Collins placed in nomination 
for Governor H. Clay McCormick, the present Attorney General of Penn- 
sylvania. In 1890 he was the choice of the Lycoming County Republicans 
for Congress in his district. At the election in 1894 he received a larger 
vote for member of the Legislature than any other candidate on either the 
Republican or Democratic ticket, his plurality being about 1,000 in 
a county which has sent very few Republicans to the Legislature. He 
served on the Ccmmittees on Judiciary General, Congressional and Judicial 
Apportionment and Elections. Mr. Collins took a prominent part in debate 
on important subjects and was one of the useful members on that hard- 
worked Committee, the Judiciary General. 





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SON F. UNDERWOOD, one of 



Wayne County, was born September 8, 
1830, in Worcester County, Massachu- 
setts. When a child his parents removed 
to Preston Township, Wayne County, 
Pa. He w r as educated in the common 
schools and in old Franklin Academy at 
Harford, Susquehanna County. He was 
raised on a farm and has followed that 
occupation and that of lumbering the 
greater portion of his life. He has filled 
several local offices and was Justice of 
the Peace twelve years. In 1878, when 
his county was reliably Democratic, he 
was elected to the House on a local issue, 
which resulted in the defeat of one of the 
Democratic candidates for the Assembly. 
In 1884 he was again a candidate of his Party for the House and came 
within ten votes of being elected. General Hancock, the Democratic candi- 
date for President at the same election, had 299 majority in the county. In 
1894 he received a majority of nearly 600 over that popular Democrat, ex- 
Representative Knhbach. He has always been a firm believer in Republican 
principles but has sometimes inclined to the independent wing of his Partv. 
F\or sixteen years Mr. Underwood w r as a member of the State Board of Agri- 
culture, and numerous essays read by him at its meetings may be found in 
the published reports of the Board. He is also a member of the State Grange. 
Mr. Cnderwood was a member of the Committees on Game and Fish, Mili- 
tary and Uabor and Industry. 




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ITTILLIAM HENRY MILLER, of Som- 
VV erset County, was born on a farm 
near Stoyestown, Somerset County, De- 
cember 6, 1846. He was raised a farm el- 
and was educated in the common and 
normal schools of his county. From the 
age of 14 to 17 he taught in the public 
schools. He responded to the July call 
of 1864 for troops to put down the rebel- 
lion by enlisting as a soldier in Company 
G, Ninety-third Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Veteran Volunteer Infantry, and served 
with his regiment in all the engagements 
from that time in the Shenandoah Valley 
and in front of Petersburg and Richmond. 
He was one of the first men who entered 
the Confederate fortifications at Fort 
Fisher. He was a witness of the fall of 
Petersburg and Richmond and was present when General Lee surrendered to 
General Grant at Appomattox. He also had the honor of participating in 
the Grand Review at Washington after the return of the victorious Northern 
armies. On June 27, 1S65, he was discharged from the military service and 
resumed teaching and farming at his home. He subsequently became a 
breeder of fine stock. He has held a commission as Justice of the Peace 
fifteen years. He is a charter member and director of the First National 
Bank of Somerset and has served as insurance director and member of the 
Tressler Orphans' Home. He has served on the Republican County Com- 
mittee, administered the affairs of a large number of estates and has filled 
nearly all the positions of a busy man's life. He is a charter member of 
Reuben Ferner Post, No. 31S, Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., and a 
Past Commander and Assistant Inspecting Officer for the Thirty-seventh Dis- 
trict He is attached to a number of other secret orders and has been a 
Sunday-school scholar, teacher and superintendent for forty years and is 
an elder of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Miller is a self-made 
man, and as a member of the House of 1895 displayed ripe capacity for the 
work to which he was assigned. He served on the Committees of Ways 
and Means, Banking, Accounts and Compare Bills. His popularity at his 
home was shown in the result of the election in 1894, when he was g iven a 
plurality of over 3,100. 






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JEREMIAH MAURER, one of the 
| members from Somerset County, was 
- born in Ouemahoning Township, 
Somerset County, July 24, 1831. He 
received his early education in the com- 
mon schools and at the age of eighteen 
years began teaching, covering three 
consecutive terms. About this time he 
was married and removed to a farm in 
Jenner Township, Somerset County. He 
continued at the business for thirty years, 
when he sold the farm and took up his 
residence at Stoyestown Borough. He 
became the proprietor of a small farm at 
that place and still resides in the town. 
In October, 1862, he entered the Union 
Army, being attached to Company E, 
One Hundred and Seventy-first Regi- 
ment, which formed part of the command of Major General Foster. While 
in the service the regiment to which Mr. Maurer belonged did much garri- 
son duty. On August 7, 1863, ne was mustered out of service and returned 
to Stoystown. He has been prominently identified with the Lutheran 
Church for forty-six years. While he has filled a number of local offices he 
has never held any of consequence until he qualified as a member of the 
House. At the election in November, 1894, he received a larger vote in 
Somerset County than any other candidate on the Republican ticket. He 
was a member of the Committees on Public Health and Sanitation, Federal 
Relations, Centennial Affairs and Retrenchment and Reform. 





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ALEX. T. CONNELL, who repre- 
sents the Second District of Lacka- 
wanna County, was born in Lackawanna 
Township, the same county, June 13, 
1 86 1. In February, 1S71, after attend- 
ing school several years, he removed to 
Scranton. At the age of thirteen he 
left school to accept a position in the 
general store of William Connell & Co., 
and afterward took a special course in 
the Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, 
Pa., beginning in 1880. In 1891 he was 
elected to the Scranton City Council to 
fill an unexpired term and in 1894 was 
honored with a re-election in a ward 
which a few years before had given a 
Democratic majority of 600. His popu- 
larity contributed largely toward making 
him the Republican candidate for member of the House in his district, and 
that the confidence of his party in his ability to win the fight was not mis- 
placed was demonstrated in his election by over 200 majority over ex-Repre- 
sentative Quinnan, a popular Democrat. While he was in the Councils of 
Scranton he was regarded as one of its most progressive spirits. In the 
Legislature Mr. Connell possessed the warm esteem of all with whom he 
was associated, and his conncilmanic experience greatly assisted him in the 
performance of his legislative duties. He took special interest in legislation 
affecting labor, as well as all other legislative subjects of importance. Mr. 
Connell served on the Committees of Ways and Means, Public Buildings 
and Grounds, Constitutional Reform and Federal Relations. 





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IIARLES P. O'M ALLEY, who rep- 
sen ts the Fourth District of Lacka- 
wanna, is the youngest member of the 
House, being but 24 years of age. When 
eight years old he commenced to earn his 
living in the coal mines and passed 
JS through all the stages of that industry. 

V Later he attended a business college, 

/ served as amenuensis and salesman in a 

large wholesale grocery store, entered 
V I the law offices of Willard, Warren & 

Knapp, of Scrantou, as law reporter, 
devoted his spare time to reading law, 
and was admitted to the bar and is still 
connected with the above firm. As a 
verbatim reporter Mr. O'Malley has done 
considerable newspaper work and re- 
ported the speeches of many of the most 
noted orators of the country. Mr. O'Malley was elected by a majority of 
1 149 over his Democratic opponent in a district strongly Democratic. In 
the House he served 011 the Judiciary General, Mines and Mining and 
Printing Committees, and familiarized himself with legislative practice early 
in the session. A ready debater and hard worker, ever watchful for oppor- 
tunities to advance the interests of his county, and more especially the 
mining element, the people of his district can always point with pride and 
satisfaction to the record made by their bright and brainy Representative, 
Charles P. O'Malley. 





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JE. WENK, of Forest County, was 
. born in Tionesta, that county, De- 
cember 13, 1853. After having re- 
ceived a moderate education in the 
common schools he became a printer's 
apprentice in The Bee, published in 
Tionesta by Colonel J. W. Reisinger, of 
Meadville. One year after Colonel Reis- 
inger had started the paper he disposed 
of his interest to a company, and the 
name of the journal was changed to 
Forest Republican . In 1879 Mr. YVenk 
became its proprietor, and since then has 
conducted it with success. Although 
Forest County has only about 10,000 
inhabitants, the Republican has a circu- 
lation of about 1,200, and gives promise 
of gradually adding to it. This com- 
paratively large patronage has been obtained without any particular effort, 
and is due almost solely to the popularity of the paper. Mr. Wenk's parents 
were born in Germany and came to this country about fifty years ago, 
settling at Tionesta. They were attracted to the place because of its great 
lumber interests, which yet give it a commercial importance in addition to 
the large quantities of oil which have been produced in the neighborhood. 
Although General Hastings had a phenomenal majority in Forest County, 
Mr. Wenk led him a hundred votes at the last general election. Represen- 
tative Wenk was a member of the Committees on Congressional Apportion- 
ment, Judiciary Focal and Pensions and Gratuities. As a legislator he has 
won many friends by his unassuming manners and has faithfully represented 
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T R. GRINER, who represents the 
. First District of Luzerne County, 
was born at Winslow, New Jersey, 
January 2, 1843. After having acquired 
an ordinary education in the common 
schools he entered the glass works at 
Winslow, in which he- worked about four 
years. After the battle of Gettysburg he 
enlisted in the United States Army, serv- 
ing with credit about four years and a 
half. He i was seven years a locomotive 
fireman on the New York and Erie 
Railroad after his retirement from the 
military service, and subsequently 
worked in the coal mines in the 
Wvoming Valley a number of years. 
Since that time he has been employed 
in the Sheldon Axle Works at Wilkes- 
Barre as a steel and iron worker. He is the successor of Captain Brodhead, 
Democrat. Mr. Griner is an uncompromising Republican, and in 1894 was 
elected after a hard fight. He took a particularly prominent part to knock 
out the bill to create a new county out of Luzerne and Schuylkill and par- 
ticipated in the famous filibuster to prevent its consideration on second 
reading. As a member of the Junior Order 'of American Mechanics he 
earnestly supported the bill to prohibit teachers in the public schools from 
wearing religious garbs, introduced by Representative Smith, of Philadel- 
delphia. Whatever position he occupied on any important question of 
legislation was taken fearlessly. He served on the Committees on Iron and 
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k RANK B. McCLAIN, member of the 
House from Lancaster City, was born 
in that town April 14, 1864, and gradu- 
ated from its public schools in 1881. 
For a number of years he was book- 
keeper in the employ of Levi Seusenig, 
who did an extensive business as a cattle 
buyer and seller. After that Mr. Mc- 
Clain went into the same business for 
himself, bu\ ing cattle in the west and 
disposing of them in the east. In 1891 
he became a member of the firm of Geo. 
R. Sensenig & Frantz, and has been con- 
nected with it since. This concern is 
one of the largest of the kind in Penn- 
sylvania, the average yearly number of 
cattle disposed of by it aggregating about 
25,000, while the annual business does 
not vary much from three-quarters of a million dollars. Mr. McClain 
was twice defeated for nomination as a candidate for the House, but in 1894 
captured the prize without difficulty. Owing to the precipitation of religious 
questions into the campaign he was cut severely by members of secret 
orders. His opponent was ex-Representative Forrest, a member of one 
of these organizations. Mr. McClain is a hard-working Republican, 
and has been an active figure in politics of Lancaster city for many years. 
His father was born in Ireland and located in the birth-place of his 
son in 1840, and is still living in that town. His mother was of Irish 
descent. Mr. McClain was a member of the Committees on Municipal 
Corporations, City Passenger Railways, Printing, Bureau of Statistics and 
Retrenchment and Reform. He was naturally averse to participating in 
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T ILLIAM TRENTON CREASY, one 
of the Representatives from Colum- 
bia County, was born in Catawissa Town- 
ship, Columbia County, in 1S56, on the 
farm he now occupies. He was educated 
in the common schools and Catawissa 
Academy and was graduated from the 
Bloomsburg State Normal School. At 
the age of sixteen he began teaching 
school and continued in the practice of 
that profession nine terms. He was 
Mercantile Appraiser in Columbia County 
in 1893 and was serving his fourth term 
as School Director of his native township 
when elected to the Legislature. His 
occupation is farming and fruit growing. 
Notwithstanding the political revolution 
which swept over the country last year, 
involving the Democratic Party in disaster nearly everywhere in the North, 
Mr. Creasy secured a majority of more than 1,000 over his highest Repub- 
lican opponent. Mr. Creasy is recognized as one of the most active Demo- 
crats in his county and is prominent: in the councils of that organization. 
He belongs to a number of associations formed to promote the interests of 
agriculture. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and has a family 
consisting of a wife and three sons and three daughters. Mr. Creasy 
devoted himself faithfully to the duties of a legislator and at this writing 
has not been absent from any of the sessions of the House. He was a 
member of the Committees on Accounts, Public Buildings, Library and 
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THOMAS J. PHILIPS, of Chester 
Comity, was born at Pennington ville 
(now Atglen Borough), December 3, 
1S46. He received his early education 
in private schools in his neighborhood 
and in 1867 graduated from the Bncknell 
University at Lewisburg. After spend- 
a year in the west he became part pro- 
prietor of a rolling mill near Coatesville, 
Chester County, which was operated 
under the firm name of Goodman & 
Philips. He continued in that business 
from the spring of 1873 until the fall of 
1875. Since then Mr. Philips has 
passed his time on the ancestral farm, 
which he still occupies, in the vicinity of 
Atglen. In 1873 he was a messenger in 
the House and in 1882 a delegate to the 
Republican State Convention which nominated Niles for Auditor General 
and Livsey for State Treasurer. At his home he has acceptably served 
in a number of local positions, including Justice of the Peace, which office 
he resigned to take that of member of the Legislature. For many years he 
has been a Director of the Christiana National Bank and is now its Vice 
President. He is an officer in a fire insurance company and building and 
loan associations in his town and has taken a conspicuous part in the growth 
of Atglen. In 1894, at the first nominating convention in his county, he 
was tied as a candidate for member of the House with J. T. Carpenter, but 
on a second trial he defeated the same competitor by nearly two to one. 
He received a majority over his Democratic opponent of about 6,200. Mr. 
Philips is a member of the Committees on Agriculture ( of which he was Sec- 
retary), Printing, Geological Survey, Centennial Affairs and Compare Bills. 
He took a particular interest in agricultural matters and in discussion spoke 
to the point and created a favorable impression. 




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THOMAS O. MIUJKEN, of Hunt- 
ingdon County, was horn February 
dPF ^ v [h, iSis, in Barre Township, the same 

^^ ■"•*". county. When seven years old, at the 

/ ^v death of his mother, he removed to Phil- 

\jg^ r ^._ adelphia, where he resided several years, 

when he returned to his father's former 
place of residence. In Philadelphia 
young Milliken received a limited educa- 
tion. While subsequently in Huntingdon 
Comity he worked on his father's farm 
and availed himself of all schooling pos- 
sible. When twenty he began the study 
of medicine, meanwhile also teaching 
school, continuing in these occupations 
three years. The rest of his life was 
almost exclusively devoted to farming. 
Two years ago he took a course in 
Pierce's Business College. In the township in which he resides (Miller; he 
has served two terms as Justice of the Peace and has been superintendent 
of a Sunday-school thirteen years at his home at Cornpropst. In 1894 he 
was a candidate for the House and made the nomination. At the election 
Mr. Milliken received the large majority over the highest candidate on the 
Democratic Legislative ticket of over 2,100. Mr. Milliken served on the 
Committees on Printing, Elections, Cxeological Survey and Retrenchment 
and Reform. While he took no active part in debate he made himself useful 
in committee. All legislation in the interest of farmers received his warm 
support. 







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D. PATTERSON, of Cambria 
County, was born in Greene Town- 
ship, Indiana County, February 16, 
1845. An education begun in the com- 
mon schools was completed in two 
courses in an academic institution in his 
native county. Until he was seventeen 
years old he worked on a farm. At that 
time he enlisted in the Army of the 
Union, becoming a member of the Sixth 
Corps. He participated in the battles of 
the Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Coal 
Harbor, and also served under General 
Phil Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. 
He was connected with the Sixty-sev- 
enth Pennsylvania Regiment during the 
war, having enlisted in July, 1S62, and 
retired only after the close of the great 
internecine struggle. He was captured twice, and was a prisoner of 
war fifteen months, ten of which were spent in the horrible x\ndersouville 
den. Nothing but his indomitable will saved him from death in that insti- 
tution. Mr. Patterson also was a prisoner at Belle Island, Tobacco Ware- 
house, Milan, Georgia, and Thomasville, Florida. On his return from the 
army he located in Barr Township, Cambria County, where he has uninter- 
ruptedly resided the past twenty-two years. He has filled several local 
positions and in November, 1894, was elected a member of the House of 
Representatives by the large majority of 1,725. Mr. Patterson's parents were 
of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. Patterson served on the Committees on Con- 
gressional Apportionment, Labor and Industry, Military and Constitutional 
Reform. While he did not figure in debate he performed his duties with a 
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A.RMON M. KEPHART, one of the 

.. members from Fayette County, was 

-*" «-a#i^^ born in Frankstown, Blair County, Feb- 

m % ruary 17, 1865. His father having been 

W -m a brave soldier in the War of the Rebellion 

he was sent to the McAlisterville Soldiers' 
( >rphan School, Juniata Comity, at the age 
of ten years, having previously received a 
rudimentary education at his home. At 
the age of sixteen he was obliged under the 
law to leave the Soldiers' Orphan School. 
Soon afterward he was employed as a fire- 
man of an engine on the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad. He did his work so well that 
he was promoted to the position of a loco- 
motive engineer, which he has held several 
years. Mr. Kephart established an excel- 
lent reputation in his county as a citizen 
and won the good will of the Republican Party by his active participation in 
politics. As a result of these circumstances he was nominated for the Legis- 
lature in 1S94 when not present at the convention which made him one of the 
Republican candidates. At the session of 1893 Fayette County was repre- 
sented in the House by three Democrats, but notwithstanding this fact Mr. 
Kephart was elected by a plurality of over 2,000. He served on the Commit- 
tees on Congressional Apportionment, Banks, Federal Relations and Library, 
and among the bills he introduced was one providing for the taxing of aliens 
two dollars a year. Mr. Kephart was one of the most popular members of 
the House and paid particular attention to all his duties. 






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JOHN M. HEAGY, of Dauphin 
J Count}-, who was born June 10, 
1857, on tne Heagy farm in Upper 
Swatara Township, Dauphin County, 
represents the fifth generation of that 
name in that place, as the family re- 
presents the Republican Party since its 
formation. Mr. Heagy was educated in 
the common schools and in the Millers- 
ville State Normal School. After he 
had completed his studies he followed 
farming and dairying until [884, when 
he embarked in the livery business 
at Steelton, removing to that thriving 
town in March, 1885. Having taken 
an active part in Republican politics 
and possessing the confidence and re- 
spect of his party, he was elected a 
delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1890. In the same 
year he was elected Burgess of Steelton, and in 1891 he was reelected 
Burgess by one of the largest majorities ever given a candidate in that 
town. While conducting the affairs of that municipality he received the 
plaudits of voters without regard to political considerations because of his 
administrative ability and general impartiality. In 1892 he was a candidate 
for the Legislature, but in the interest of harmony in the party he withdrew 
his name in the convention. In 1894 he was nominated as a candidate for 
the House from the Second District of Dauphin County and elected by 
about 3,900 plurality. Mr. Heagy is one of the most successful of Steelton's 
business men and has been identified with many enterprises calculated to 
advance the growth of that great industrial center and with many charitable 
movements. In connection with his livery business he has opened an insur- 
ance and real estate office in Steelton. There was no member of the Legisla- 
ture of 1895 who applied himself more closely to his duties than Mr. Heagy. 
When nearly two-thirds of the session had been passed he had not missed a 
roll call. Every bill was subjected by him to the closest scrutiny, and when 
it came up for disposition he was fully prepared to vote intelligently on it. 
Mr. Heagy was a member of the Committees on Judiciary Local, Public 
Buildings, Printing, Library and Game and Fish. 



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S. MIDDLE, of Bedford County, was 
born near Loysburg, Bedford County, 
February 12, 1844. After receiving an 
education in the common and normal 
schools of his county he followed the 
profession of teaching in the public 
schools in the same county for a short 
time. He was engaged in the mercantile 
business in Altoona in the employ of D. 
M. Bare, of the present paper-null firm of 
Bare & Co., of Roaring Springs. In July, 
1863, he left the store room and entered 
the army in Company I, One Hundred 
and Ninety-fourth Pennsylvania Volun- 
teer Infantry, and at the expiration of 
said enlistment re-enlisted in Co. M, 
Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Cavalry, and served in that organization 
until mustered out October 23, 1865. Since then he has been engaged prin- 
cipally in farming and stock dealing. For several terms he has filled the 
office of School Director. Mr. Biddle was elected as the successor of the 
lamented Hon. John Cessna as a member of the General Assembly in No- 
vember, 1X44, and during the session of 1895 was a member of the follow- 
ing Committees : Legislative Apportionment, Counties and Townships, Mili- 
tary and Accounts. His ancestors, of the Biddle line, were from England 
and landed in America in 162 1, from which the Biddle family has spread over 
the various sections of the United States. His great-grandfather, Andrew 
Biddle, served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. He removed from 
near Baltimore, Maryland, to Blair County, Pennsylvania, residing uear 
Roaring Springs, where he died. 




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T C. FRENCH, of Washington County, 
J • who was elected a 'member of the 
House on the Republican ticket by the 
comfortable majority of about 3,000, was 
born in Morris Township, Washington 
County, October 10, 1836. He spent his 
childhood and early boyhood in Fayette 
County and his early manhood in West 
Virginia. He was obliged to depend for 
his education on that which the common 
schools imparted. In June 16, 1861, he 
responded to the first three years' call for 
troops to crush the Rebellion, and served 
until the end of his enlistment, and 
would have remained in the field longer 
but for the fact that he received a serious 
wound in the thigh, which is yet giving 
him much trouble. He entered the 
Union Army as a private and came out of the service as the adjutant of his 
regiment. He was injured at Rocky Gap, August 26, 1863, having his 
knee-joint shattered. Mr. French has always been a member of the Repub- 
lican Party and in 1S73 was elected Treasurer of Washington County in a 
closely contested fight, when Republican majorities in that county were 
very small. Mr. French did not contribute much to the debate of the House 
but closely analyzed legislation and was attentive to the duties which 
devolve on a conscientious member of the Legislature. Among the Com- 
mittees on which he served are those on Vice and Immorality and Counties 
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IVASHINGTON L. HERSHKY, of 
VV Lancaster County, was born in 
the beautiful village of Sporting Hill, 
Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pa., 
on December 14, 1843. He was educated 
in the public schools in the county. 
While yet in his minority he enlisted as 
a soldier in the late war in Captain 
Haines' Company B, Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment, commanded by Colonel Thomas 
Welsh, on September 1, 1862. He par- 
ticipated in the battles of Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Yicksburg, Big Black 
and Jackson, Miss., and Knoxville and 
Strawberry Plains, Tenn. On January 
2, 1 864, when the regiment was encamped 
at Blaines Cross Roads, Tenn., he re-en- 
listed as a veteran and participated in 
the Wilderness battles. He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, 
June 3, 1864, and was discharged by general order, June 7, 1865. After he 
returned from the army he engaged in farming and was in the advance of 
progressive farmers. He has taken an active part in politics for many 
years, and for a number of terms in succession was the Republican County 
Committeeman in his district. He was elected to the Legislature from the 
Northern District of Lancaster County in 1894. He is a member of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, in which he takes great interest, and is a 
lineal descendant of Christian Hershey, who emigrated from the Palatinate 
to Little Conestoga in 17 17. The subject of this sketch is descended from 
Andrew Hershey, son of Christian. As a legislator he was regular in 
attendance at the sessions of the House and left no opportunity unemployed 
to faithfully represent his constituents and the State. He was a member of 
the Committees on Counties and Townships, Military, Congressional Appor- 
tionment and Centennial Affairs. 





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FHIMETT H. WILCOX, one of the 
j Representatives from Erie County, 
was born in Yates County, New York, 
November 6, 1842. He was raised on a 
farm and educated in the common schools. 
1 hiring the War of the Rebellion he served 
in the United States Navy. In 1873-4 
he was a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Pennsylvania from the same 
county he now in part represents. He 
was appointed to the position of Deputy 
Collector in 1882 and Deputy Collector 
of Internal Revenue for Erie County for 
1883 and 1884. He has always been a 
Republican and in 1894 was elected a 
member of the House by over 3,500 plu- 
rality. He was a member of the Com- 
mittees on Bureau of Statistics, Judiciary 



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TAMES N. MOORE, one of Butler 
J County's Representatives, was born 
in Slippery Rock Township, Butler 
County, August 23, 1859. He worked 
on a farm and attended the common 
schools from early boyhood until he was 
eighteen years old. He afterward en- 
tered Grove City College and enjoyed its 
educational advantages four years, when 
he began the reading of law with Judge 
Charles McCandless, of Butler. He was 
admitted to the bar of that county oir 
December 5, 1882, since which time he 
has been practicing his profession in that 
town. He has served as the Secretary 
and Chairman of the Butler County 
Republican Committee and has been a 
delegate a number of times to Republican 
State Conventions. At the election in November, 1894, he was chosen a 
member of the House by a majority of 2,447 over the highest Democratic 
candidate on the legislative ticket. He was a member of the Committees on 
the Judiciary General and Counties and Townships. Mr. Moore opened the 
fight in the House against the passage of the Marshall Bill to repeal the act 
of 1883, which prohibited the consolidation of competing pipe line com- 
panies. He made a very logical speech, in which he held that the measure 
sought to be passed was in contravention of the spirit of the Constitution and 
would repeal a law which had prevented the monopoly of the transportation 
and refining of oil by large and powerful corporations, thus paving the way 
for healthful competition of business, giving employment to many persons 
and securing the producer and laborer at home much of the money which 
before went into a foreign corporation (meaning the Standard Oil Company). 
Mr. Moore closed thus: "I appeal to you in the interest of the men who 
have invested their money on the faith of the State and Constitution of 
Pennsylvania, in the interest of the weak against the strong, in the interest 
of home industry against monopoly, to vote against this bill." 



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TH. WILLIAMS, who represents 
. Carbon , for many years one of the 
most reliable Democratic counties in 
the State, was bom January 9, 1858, 
in England. His parents removed to 
the United States when he was only 
seven years of age, locating at Beaver 
Meadows , Carbon County . He alternated 
his time in his boyhood days by attending 
common school, picking slate and doing 
other jobs about the mines. At the age 
of eighteen he entered a grocery store at 
Beaver Meadows, and having a keen eye 
for business, in a few years became the 
proprietor of the largest grocery store at 
his home, which he is still successfully 
conducting. About ten years since he 
started a similar establishment at Hazle- 
ton. This, too, proved a profitable enterprise to Mr. Williams, who is 
operating it with a larger force than any employed by any other man in the 
grocery business in that thriving and ambitious coal mining town. The 
position of member of the House is the first political office he has ever held. 
Although Carbon County was represented in 1893 by a Democrat, Mr. Wil- 
liams obtained the large plurality of 626, and this gratifying result was 
accomplished without much effort on the part of the Republican candidate, 
who was too ill to attend to his canvass the last four weeks of it. Owing to 
the wide acquaintance he enjoyed and consequent popularity he received a 
greater plurality than any other candidate on the Republican ticket except 
one. Mr. Williams is a director in the First National Bank of Hazleton, 
where he is held in the same esteem as at his Carbon County home. He 
speciallv interested himself in legislation to promote the prosperity of the 
laboring people and introduced a bill to protect them in their rights to 
belong to unions and supported all bills which he thought would inure to 
their advantage. Mr. Williams is one of the most popular members of the 
Legislature and served on the Committees on Banks, Manufacturers, Mines 
and Mining and Library. 



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WILLIAM H. RUTLEDGE, of Lu- 
zerne County, was born in Pittston, 
March 25, 1858. He was educated in 
the common schools, with a short course 
at the Wyoming Seminary. At seven- 
teen years of age he was engaged as a 
telegraph operator and at nineteen was 
given charge of an important station 
in the employ of the C. R. R. of N. J. 
He has been employed ever since in sim- 
ilar work with the above company, the 
Phila. & Reading, Delaware & Hudson 
and the Erie & Wyoming. He has 
always taken an active interest in comity, 
State and National politics and was a 
candidate in [888 for the Assembly in 
the old Seventh District in which Pittston 
was then located. The district being 
hopelessly Republican he worked hard for success and went down with the 
satisfaction of having made the best showing of any previous Democratic 
candidate. At the late session Mr. Rutledge was actively engaged in ad- 
vancing the interests of the Pittston Hospital, of which he has been trustee 
for several years, and introduced a bill appropriating $25,000 for the use of the 
same for the ensuing two years. He took much interest in all legislation 
concerning mines and railroads and did some very effective committee work 
on those important matters. He was on the following Committees: City 
Passenger Railways, Legislative Apportionment, Vice and Immorality and 
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OSEPH WYATT, of Schuylkill 
County, was born January i, 1859, in 
Monmouthshire, England. In 1867 
his parents came to this county, and 
located at Tamaqua. His father had been 
a coal miner in his native country and 
continued the business in Schuylkill 
County. The son was a slate picker at 
eight years of age. Later he became a 
door-tender and finally a full-fledged 
miner. He worked at mining until 
eighteen years old, soon after which 
he was a fireman on the outside of 
a mine. He continued in this position 
two years, when he was made engineer 
of a hoisting engine at the mines. Many 
years were devoted to this business, when 
he assumed the proprietorship of a hotel 
in Shenandoah, in which business he has been prosperous. He has held 
several local positions conferred on him by his constituents, and in 1894 was 
nominated by the Republican Party as one of its candidates for the Legisla- 
ture. Mr. Wyatt was greatly interested in a number of bills he introduced 
and resorted to every honorable expedient to defeat the bill which sought to 
curtail the territorial limit and reduce the population of the county which he 
partially represented by making a new county out of it and Luzerne. Bills 
introduced by him, and which had his warm support, provided for automatic 
safety controllers for hoisting engines, for the abolition of company stores, for 
the prevention of bogus tax receipts, for an increased appropriation to the 
Anthracite Hospital, at Ashland, and for the addition of a ward to the insti- 
tution for the treatment of people contracting asthma in the mines. This is 
a common malady, and Mr. Wyatt was the first man to introduce a bill to 
ameliorate the condition of these suffering miners. He was a member of the 
Committees on Mines and Mining, Legislative Apportionment and Library. 






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\ H. PASC< >E, of Lehigh County, 
born in the county of Schuyl- 
kill, Pa., August 25, [851. He is the 
son of Richard \V. and Jessie C. Paseoe. 
His father was a native of Cornwall, 
England, and settled in Pennsylvania 
when a young man, and his mother was 
born in the Highlands of Scotland. 
Representative Paseoe was the third in 
order of birth in a family of seven chil- 
dren, five of whom are living. The days 
of his childhood were passed at Friedens- 
ville, Lehigh County, and his early edu- 
cation was acquired in the district schools. 
He afterward became a student in the 
Freeland Seminary, Montgomery County, 
Pa. After the completion of his educa- 
tion he entered the employ of F. Phreaner 
& Detwiler, druggists, of Philadelphia, with which firm he remained a 
number of years. In 1S76 he became a contractor and successfully prose- 
cuted his business until 1SS2, varying it by supplying parties with iron ore. 
He subsequently entered the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 
on construction work. For five years he was connected with the Geissinger 
& Kemmerer Quarry Companies, taking out and preparing for the market 
building and furnace stone. In 1S91 Mr. Paseoe became a member of the 
Blue Ridge Powder Company and was elected its President, which position 
he still retains. He is also interested in the manufacture of foundry facings 
and the president of the Mahoning Foundry Facing Mills at Lehighton, 
Carbon County. In £880 he was married to Miss Annie L- Reiusmith, of 
Allentown, and has three children, William H., Russell Thayer and Jessie 
Campbell. Mr. Paseoe is known 111 Allentown, where he has resided many 
years, as a staunch Republican, always ready to contribute his share to the 
success of that party. In 1885 he was elected a member of Council of 
Allentown and served in that capacity three terms to the satisfaction of his 
constituents. In the year 1S94 he entered into what was supposed a hope- 
less fight, but was easily elected in a county which never before sent a 
Republican to the House. He was a member of the Committees on 
Judiciary Local, Geological Survey, Pensions and Gratuities and Legislative 
Apportionment, and performed all his duties as a legislator with an eye 
single to the interests of his State and county. Mr. Paseoe is one of Allen- 
town's most prominent business men and has taken marked interest in all 
movements to advance the commercial importance of that progressive city. 



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AMES B. HAMMOND, of Westmore- 
land Count)', one of the youngest 
members of the House, was born in 
Bolivar, Westmoreland County, April iS, 
1867. He attended public schools and 
graduated from the State Normal School 
in Indiana, Pa., in 1SS7. For two terms 
he was principal of the Bolivar schools 
and from 1888 to 1890 manager of a gen- 
eral store. Since the latter year he has 
been a member of the firm of Reese, 
Hammond & Co., fire brick manufactur- 
ers at Bolivar. He has been in the 
Borough Council of that town three years 
and served one year as Burgess and one 
year as Borough Treasurer. He is an 
earnest worker in the Republican Party 
ranks and in 1891 was elected a delegate 
to the Republican State Convention . Although the youngest candidate for 
the Legislative nomination in the history of Westmoreland County, and 
handicapped by a natural prejudice against him by reason of his youth, he 
obtained a larger vote in 1892 at the Republican primaries than any of his 
ten competitors, but owing to a combination formed by Populists and Dem- 
ocrats against him he was defeated by a small majority. While this contest 
for the nomination was a gratifying evidence of his popularity he eclipsed it 
in 1 894 by polling the biggest vote at the primaries ever received by any 
candidate for office in his county. At the subsequent election he was chosen 
a member of the House by the large plurality of 4,400. Mr. Hammond was 
one of the most active members of the Committee on Education and was 
honored with an election as its secretary. He took a prominent part 
in all important educational and other legislative matters and readily 
adapted himself to all the duties to which he was assigned. In addition to 
being a member of the Committee on Education he served on the Com- 
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H. CLAY KEEN, of Dauphin 
County, was born at Wiconisco, 
Dauphin County, May 24, i860. He 
attended the common schools in Ids 
neighborhood and concluded his educa- 
tional career in the Waynesburg College, 
Greene County. He started work at a 
coal breaker when about twelve years old, 
going to school during the winter. When 
eighteen years of age he began teaching- 
school and afterward took a course in 
college, as indicated. After the comple- 
tion of his collegiate education he resumed 
school teaching, continuing at the pro- 
fession four years, when he accepted a 
position as clerk in the employ of the 
Lykens Valley Coal Company. He has 
been in the service of this corporation 
about twelve years. Representative Laudenslager, one of the Republican 
Representatives of the House in 1893, having resigned and lemoved to 
Schuylkill County, after the end of that session, Mr. Keen was elected to 
fill his unexpired term. He was re-nominated by his party without opposi- 
tion and had a majority of nearly four thousand over his highest Democratic 
competitor. He served six years as School Director in Wiconisco, one year 
of which he was President of the Board and five years Treasurer. He intro- 
duced and was much interested in the passage of a bill providing that two 
per cent, of the school tax in districts be applied to the establishment of free 
school libraries. He was a member of the Committees on Mines and 
Mining, Health and Sanitation, Compare Bills and Retrenchment and 
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JACOB H. WEIBLE, of Berks County, 
was born in Upper Tulpehocken Town- 
- ship, of that county, April 7, 1851 . He 
was educated in the common schools, re- 
ceiving about two months' schooling a 
year until he was eighteen years old, when 
he left home to make a living by his indi- 
vidual efforts. Reaching the State of In- 
diana he secured employment under the 
surveyor of St. Josephs County, for whom 
he worked six months. At Bloomington, 
111. , he learned the trade of barber and fol- 
lowed the occupation for six years, work- 
ing in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and 
other large cities. During this time he 
constantly acquired knowledge and in 
1874 had made sufficient educational pro- 
gress to justify him in entering the Mil- 
lersville Normal School. After spending a summer term at that institution 
he was examined by the superintendent of schools of Berks County and 
received a provisional certificate. As a result he was given a school and 
taught for eighteen years. In 1879 he was admitted into the senior class in 
the Kutztown Normal School alter examination by the faculty. In the fol- 
lowing year he graduated in a class of twenty-one. In 1883 he was elected 
Justice of the Peace of Upper Tulpehocken Township, and in 1889 and 1893. 
his people honored him with re-election. He occupied the position until 
January, 1895, when he resigned the place which he had so satisfactorily 
filled because of his election as a member of the House. In 1892 the Phono- 
graphic Institute of Cincinnati awarded him a certificate of proficiency to 
teach phonography. Mr. Weible was a delegate to the Scranton Convention 
which nominated Robert E. Pattisou for Governor and to one of the Demo- 
cratic State Conventions at Allentown. He was a member of the Commit- 
tees on Federal Relations, Labor and Industry, Centennial Affairs and Statis- 
tics. If assiduous devotion to legislative duties counts for anything among 
his constituents he should have no trouble in bein? re-elected. 



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RICHARD F. SCHWARZ, represent- 
ing the county of Monroe, was born 
near Berlin, Germany, October 31, 1853. 
His father, Frederick Schwarz, who, 
after a limited education, started in life 
as a commercial traveler had, before his 
marriage, started a wall-paper factory 
and become one of the largest manu- 
facturers in his line in Germany. The 
government, recognizing" his ability in 
commercial pursuits, created him in 1872, 
a "counselor of commerce," a position of 
high honor in that land. Representative 
Schwarz received a thorough education 
in the Ducal primary and high schools at 
Dessau, Germany, and was fitted for 
commercial life in the Ducal College, 
located at the same place. His father, 
thoroughly believing in the educational effect of travel, yearly took his son 
on trips to various parts of Europe. While the eldest son entered and finally 
took entire charge of the great business built up by the father, the younger 
sou, Richard F. Schwarz, came to New York early in 1871 and traveled com- 
mercially over the greater part of the States. Tiring of this he became book- 
keeper of a great Chicago firm, but was finally forced by ill health to give up 
city and traveling life. It was then, in 1 S 7 5 , that he settled in Monroe 
County, and on a modest scale started market gardening and fruit growing, 
a business which he has since successfully developed. Since his naturaliza- 
tion he has been active in politics as an ardent Democrat, representing his 
township in the County Committee for a number of years, and his county 011 
the State Central Committee for several years and as a delegate in several of 
of the State conventions. He was a member of the State Committee under 
Mr. Hensel which conducted the first election of Governor Pattisou. He has 
successively held the office of School Director, Auditor and Justice of the 
Peace, the latter of which he held at the time of his election to the Legisla- 
ture. After a hard-fought battle foi the nomination he was elected to the 
House by a majority of 1,702. His Republican opponent was one of the 
most popular young lawyers of the county. At the session of 1893 Mr. 
Schwarz was appointed on the Committees on Geological Survey, Pensions and 
Gratuities, Fish and Game and Counties and Townships. In the latter com- 
mittee he took so prominent a part in the discussion of new road legislation 
that he was appointed by the chairman of the agricultural delegation one of 
six House members on a joint committee of House and Senate to formulate 
a general road law. In 1894 Mr. Schwarz was re-elected and in 1895 served 
on the Committees on Education, Agriculture, Banks, Fish and Game and 
Geological Survey with industry and ability. He was among the most 
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r AMUEL D. MURPHY, of Westmore- 
O land County, is of Scotch- Irish and 
Spanish extraction. His paternal an- 
cestors were among the brave defenders 
of the fair city of Londonderry during 
the memorable siege of 1688 and 1689. 
Joseph Murphy (the great-grandfather 
of Representative Murphy), of the 
"Cragon," was a man of education and 
influence and followed horse-breeding, 
manufacturing of liquors and salt in the 
county of Deny, Ireland. He married 
Jane Glendenning, of Scotland, whose 
family was one of rank in the feudal 
history of that country. William (the 
grandfather) was well educated and 
married Eve Dickey about 1790, whose 
father was also a distiller of Antrim. His 
wife was the daughter of a Spanish grandee, living near Lisbon. William 
came to this country and settled in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland 
County, about 1794, where Joseph Murphy, the father of Representative 
Murphy, was born January 19, 1800, and resided until his death, in 1878. 
The maternal ancestry is purely Scotch and conies down from the brave and 
trusted leader, Sir James Rose, who fell upon the sanguinary field of Floden, 
and from Sir Godfrey McCulloch, of Montieth, Wigtonshire, Scotland. 
Representative Murphy was born January 12, 1846, in Fairfield Township, 
Westmoreland County, and was educated in the common schools. At the 
age of eighteen, on February 28, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, Fourth 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, joined his regiment at Spott- 
sylvania Court House and participated with it in all after engagements. 
Two horses were killed under him, but he escaped injury himself. He was 
honorably discharged July 5, 1865, at Lynchburg, Virginia. Returning to 
his native place he taught school for two winters, but gradually drifted into 
dealing in live stock, which he followed until 1870, when he engaged in the 
milling business in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County. This busi- 
ness he successfully conducted for ten years. On account of failing health 
he sold his mill property and began his present business, that of farming and 
stock-raising. He has served two terms as Justice of the Peace and never 
had a decision reversed by a higher court. He was Census Enumerator for 
his district in 1890 and was nominated in the same year for Assembly. He 
has always been a staunch Republican and an advocate of the most advanced 
ideas. He is a member of Fort Ligonier Lodge, F. and A. M., and also of 
Post 324, G. A. R., Department of Pennsylvania. In 1892 he was elected 
to the House by his party and in 1894 re-elected. He served on the Com- 
mittees on Agriculture, Accounts, Education, Ways and Means, Banks and 
Pensions and Gratituties at the last session. 



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GEORGE KUNKEL, the Representa- 
tive of the First District of Dauphin 
^^P^*— *^, County, is a native of Harrisburg. II( 

m* was educated in the Gause and Seiler 

I Academies of Harrisburg and graduated 

in [876 from Franklin and Marshall 
College, at Lancaster, the second honor 
man of his class, delivering the Franklin 
oration. Judge Simouton became his 
tutor in the law. He was admitted to 
the bar of Dauphin County two years 
after his graduation from college, and 
forthwith entered upon the practice of his 
profession. Success at once demonstrat- 
ed his fitness for his calling. From the 
lower courts he went into the Supreme 
Court with a number of remarkable cases 
and met with exceptional success, dis- 
playing a comprehensive knowledge of the law and an extraordinary faculty 
for concise and forcible reasoning. In 1885, after one of the most exciting 
contests ever had in his county, he was made the candidate for District 
Attorney by the Republican Party and was elected by a handsome majority. 
His administration of the office exceeded the expectation of his friends, and 
won for him high commendations from his fellow-members of the bar. In 
r888 he was unanimously re-nominated and re-elected by the unprecedented 
majority of 3.700, receiving 1,600 majority in the city of Harrisburg, his 
home. As District Attorney Mr. Kunkel proved himself a genius in arrang- 
ing and dispatching business, thus saving great and unnecessary expense to 
the county. In his conduct of criminal cases his arguments showed him to 
be a master in marshaling facts and powerful and convincing in the presen- 
tation of the salient points of a case to a jury. Mr. Kunkel is one of the 
leaders of the Dauphin County bar. He is popular not only with the young 
element, but commands the respect of all who are his seniors at the bar. He 
has won the confidence of the people generally without regard to party. Mr. 
Kunkel was elected to the Legislature in 1892, to represent the city of Har- 
risburg, defeating his Democratic opponent by over 700 votes, although 
having been nominated but a few days before the election. In 1894 he 
eclipsed all previous records by securing a plurality of over 2,400 for 
re-election. He at once took an active interest in the affairs of the House, 
and is one of the most popular members of that body. His colleagues have 
even not been slow to recognize his ability as a lawyer and legislator, and 
his advice has been often sought by them on matters pertaining to legislation. 
He was chairman of the Committee on Insurance and a member of the 
Judiciary General, City Passenger Railways, Ways and Means and Railroads 
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JACOB C. STINEMAN, of Cambria, 
J is a native of Richland Township, 
Cambria Comity, Pa., where he was born 
April 9, 1842. He was raised on a farm 
and educated in the common schools. 
When seventeen years old Mr. Stine- 
man began teaching school, teaching in 
the winter and working on his father's 
farm in the summer. Mr. Stineman's 
grandfather was one of the early settlers 
of Cambria County, locating on the 
waters of the South Fork of the Cone- 
maugh river in 1800. At one time the 
elder Stineman owned most of the land 
which in after years was covered by the 
waters of the South Fork reservoir, or 
Conemaugh lake, the breaking of which 
in May, 1889, caused the loss of many 
lives and destruction of much valuable property in the Conemaugh Valley. 
Mr. Stineman's grandparents on his mother's side, whose names were Croyle, 
settled in that part of Cambria County known for many years as Croyle 's 
Mill, Croyle Township, now Summerhill Borough, about 1798 or 1799. Here 
his mother, who is still living at the advanced age of ninety-four years, was 
born. Mr. Stineman's father died about twenty years ago. Mr. Stineman 
enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Regiment, Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers, served until the close of the war and witnessed the 
surrender of Lee on Sunday morning, April 9, 1865. At the termination of 
the great struggle Mr. Stineman returned to his father's home and engaged 
in farming for a number of years. In 1868 he began working in the coal 
mines. He was soon advanced to mine foreman and subsequently to 
superintendent of the mines in which he first commenced working. In 
1873 he began operating coal mines for himself and is now the owner of 
much valuable coal property, being one of the largest individual producers 
of bituminous coal in the State. Mr. Stineman served fifteen consecutive 
years as School Director. He is a director of the Citizens' National Bank 
of Johnstown. In 1885 he was the Republican candidate for Sheiiff of 
Cambria County. He was defeated, but his vote was so far in excess of 
that of his colleagues on the Republican ticket that he was re-nominated in 
1888. This time he was elected by a handsome majority and was the Sheriff 
of the county at the time of the Johnstown flood. In 1889 Mr. Stineman 
was a delegate to the Republican State Convention. Two years subsequently 
he was chairman of the Cambria County Republican Committee. In 1892, 
when first elected to the House, he led all the candidates on both tickets, 
and in 1894 was re-elected by a plurality of 1,691. He served on the Com- 
mittees on Appropriations, Mines and Mining, Iron and Coal, Bureau of 
Statistics and Printing. Mr. Stineman is not much disposed to oratory but 
has shown all the qualities necessary to make a good member. 



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JEROME B. XILES, of Tioga County, 
| was born at Middlebury, Tioga County, 
September 25, [834. His grandfather, 
Nathan Niles, adopted for his home what 
now constitutes Tioga County in 1796, 
eight years before it was organized. His 
son Aaron, the father of Representative 
Xiles, was then twelve years old. Jerome 
B. worked on his father's farm until he 
was of age in 1855. He was accorded 
very limited opportunities to acquire an 
education. When he reached man's es- 
tate he took a course of study in the 
Knoxville Academy and afterward taught 
school. His father was a Democrat, but 
at the birth of the Republican Party 
young Niles joined that organization and 
has been an active member of it without 
interruption. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, in 1862 elected District 
Attorney of the county and in 1865 re-elected. In 1868 and 1S69 he was 
elected a member of the House and in 1872 a member of the Constitutional 
Convention from his district. In that body he was prominently identified 
with the shaping of important legislation which became a part of the organic 
law of the State. He was a member of the Committee on Revenue, Taxation 
and Finance and took an active part in tax uniformity. In 1880 he was 
again elected a member of the House and the following year developed great 
aptitude for leadership and took a conspicuous stand in the movement which 
culminated in the success of Mr. Mitchell, of Tioga County, as the Republi- 
can candidate for United States Senator. Mr. Niles was re-elected in 1882, 
and was the Republican caucus nominee for Speaker of the House, but as 
the I 'emocrats controlled the body was defeated for election. In 1883 he was 
nominated by the Republicans for Auditor General and elected by a large 
majority. His three years' administration of the office was marked by no 
deviation from the excellent record he had made in the public positions he 
had previously filled. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the commission 
appointed to draft tax legislation to take the place of the lost revenue bill. 
In 1890 he received nearly the entire vote of his county for the Republican 
congressional nomination in the Sixteenth District- In 1892 Mr. Niles was 
re-elected to the House and at the session of 1893 he introduced the bill to 
equalize taxation. During the past two years he has been a member of the 
Tax Conference Commission representing the County Commissioners' Associa- 
tion. As a member of the last House he was chairman of the Judiciary 
General Committee and a member of the Committees on Federal Relations, 
Ways and Means and Constitutional Reform. Mr. Niles is actively em- 
ployed in the practice of the law, in which business he is associated with his 
son, Aaron R. Niles. 



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ANDREW LUCIUS FRITZ, of 
Bloomsburg, was born in Sugarloaf 
Township, Columbia County, Pa. His 
ancestors lived on Chestnut street, Phila- 
delphia, during the Revolutionary War. 
They took an active part in the scenes 
incident to that time. His great-grand- 
father, Philip Fritz, moved with his 
grandfather to Columbia County about 
1795, where he purchased a large tract of 
land. Philip Fritz was the first school 
teacher and Justice of the Peace in the 
northern part of the county. Represen- 
tative Fritz's father, Jesse Fritz, was a 
farmer, and purchased and lived on the 
"old homestead," where he died four 
years ago. The subject of this sketch 
received an academical education at the 
New Columbia and Orangeville Academies and the Bloomsburg State 
Normal School. He began teaching when about sixteen years of age and 
followed the profession six years. He studied law with ex-United States 
Senator C. R. Buckalew and was admitted to the bar in May, 1878. In 
November of the same year he located at Scranton and was admitted to 
practice as an attorney of the Lackawanna County Courts. In a short time 
he removed to Bloomsburg, where he has since lived and practiced law. 
Mr. Fritz has a large practice in Columbia and adjoining counties and has 
been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. He has been Receiver of 
Taxes, Town Auditor, Solicitor of the Bloomsburg Poor District and coun- 
sel for a number of municipalities, and he was Secretary of Town Council 
for a number of years until he resigned. He was appointed by three sheriffs 
in succession as deputy. In 1884 he was elected to the House of Represen- 
tatives, receiving the highest vote on the Democratic ticket. In 1S86 he 
was re-nominated without opposition and was elected, running ahead of his 
ticket at the general election. In 1892 he was elected a third time as a 
member of the House, and in 1894 was honored with a fourth term, an 
unprecedented political recognition in Columbia County. During his four 
terms he served on the Judiciary General and other important committees. 
In 1 89 1 Mr. Fiitz was elected a delegate to the proposed Constitutional Con- 
vention, and at the beginning of the last session of the House was the 
Democratic caucus nominee for Speaker of that body. He has taken an 
active part in the business interests of his county and is interested in several 
new enterprises. Mr. Fritz has always been a Democrat, has taken an active 
part in politics and has been a delegate to several County and State Conven- 
tions. He is married and has two small children, both boys. 



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JACOB WEYAND was born in Beaver 
J County, Pennsylvania. His father, 
Henry Weyand, followed the occupations 
of teacher and fanner, and for many years 
was a leading and influential citizen of 
Ins neighborhood. He received hisearly 
education in the common schools of his 
native county, excepting a six months' 
term in the Beaver Academy. He was 
identified with the Beaver Xrgus for 
fourteen years as editor and publisher. 
The editorial chair of this paper had 
previously been filled by a number of the 
ablest men the county has produced, 
including United States Senator Quay 
and State Senator J. S. Rutan. When 
the war broke out Mr. Weyand was 
living in Ohio, and at that time was 
the owner and editor of the Free Press in Carrollton, Ohio. Loving his 
country dearly, and seized with the martial spirit of the times, he sold out 
his paper, raised a company of volunteers and took his men to Camp Mingo, 
on the Ohio river. Here they were attached to the One Hundred and 
Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and subsequently to the Sixth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. He took an active part in sixteen battles, including 
The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. 
Subsequently his regiment was under command of Sheridan in the Shenan- 
doah Valley, when Early's forces were shattered in the campaign of 1864. 
Mr. Weyand was twice wounded during the war and was brevetted Major 
and Lieutenant Colonel for "meritorious conduct in the field." He has 
always been a staunch Republican, and was one of the delegates to the con- 
vention from Beaver County which organized the Republican Party of the 
United States in Pittsburg in 1855. He was elected to the Legislature in 
1S92 and introduced a joint resolution, which was adopted, instructing Penn- 
sylvania members of Congress to vote for and use their influence for the 
passage of a bill then pending in the United States House of Representatives 
authorizing the Secretary of War to cause a survey to be made for a ship 
canal to connect the waters of Lake Erie and the Ohio river. Mr. Weyand 
unfortunately lost his faithful and beloved wife, Victoria Adams Weyand, 
just previous to his first election. He has four children living — Emma, 
wife of H. W. Reeves, of Beaver Falls ; Edwin S., an attorney at the Beaver 
bar, and Blanche and Paul, who are still members of the household. Mr. 
Weyand was re-elected to the House in 1894 an ^ served in the Legislature 
of 1895. At that session he was a member of the Committee of Ways and 
Means, Education, City Passenger Railways, Military, Corporations and 
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ALGERNON LUTHER MARTIN, 
one of the Representatives from 
Lawrence County, was born in North 
Beaver, that county, on August 26, 1S44. 
He received his education in the common 
schools, at Movant Jackson High School 
and at Poland College in Ohio. He is 
now engaged in farming, and has been all 
his life more or less interested in that pur- 
suit. He has always taken a deep interest 
in the public school system of the State and 
in the schools of his native town, and for a 
period of eight years served as School 
Director in the township of Little Beaver 
and North Beaver. He was elected to the 
office of Road Supervisor in his native 
township and served in that capacity for 
a period of two years. In 1892 he was 
elected a Representative and re-elected in 1894, having received the highest 
vote of any candidate on the ticket for that office. He was appointed by 
Governor Pattison a delegate to the Farmers' National Congress which met 
at Parkersburg, W. Va., October, 1894. While in that State he did faithful 
work towards leading West Virginia into the Republican line. His services 
have always been freely given for the advancement of the Republican Party 
of his native State. In the campaign of 1894 he stumped his county in the 
interest of Governor Hastings and the Republican ticket. The subject of 
this sketch did not introduce many bills at the last session, but took an active 
part in the discussion of legislative measures. He was appointed by Speaker 
Walton chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform and served 
on the Committees on Agriculture, Vice and Immorality, Counties and Town- 
ships and Pensions and Gratuities. Mr. Martin is a forcible and eloquent 
speaker, and whenever he addresses the House receives respectful considera- 
tion and attention. He has the courage of his convictions upon all questions, 
and in all that he says and does places himself honestly and fearlessly on the 
record. The sincerity of his speech is evidenced by the sincerity of his con- 
duct. He took high ranks among the members of the House of Representa- 
tives of the session of 1895 as an all round useful member. 



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WILLIAM H. LONG, of York 
County, was born in Hanover, Pa., 
August 6, 1852. He received his educa- 
tion in the schools of his native town. 
Early in life he learned the cigar trade, 
mastering all its details, but finding the 
occupation too confining became inter- 
ested in the individual freight business, 
and in that line has built up a profitable 
trade. His cars run between Hanover 
and Baltimore and have proved very 
beneficial to his patrons. He has always 
been in the forefront of any enterprise to 
advance the good reputation and growth 
of Hanover, in which place he has re- 
sided from his birth. That he enjoys 
the confidence of his neighbors is shown 
in the fact that he has been honored 
repeatedlv with positions of trust. He has served over eleven years as 
Secretarv of Hanover Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has for more than five years 
been Chief of Records of the Order of Red Men in his town. For nearly 
twelve years he has been chief of the Hanover Fire Department, in which 
capacity he has contributed largely toward making the Volunteer Fire 
Department of Hanover efficient. He lias repeatedly been a delegate to the 
State Convention of Firemen and is an ex-\ T iee-President of the Pennsyl- 
vania State Firemen's Association. He has been a member of Council of 
his town three terms and was Assistant Burgess and Town Clerk one term. 
He is an active Democratic politician but owing to his broad and conserva- 
tive views numbers among the members of the opposite party many warm 
friends. He became earnestly interested in the success of the Democratic 
organization when he was eighteen years old and has since been an enthusi- 
astic supporter of its principles and has frequently served his party as 
delegate to County Conventions. In the Legislature he has performed his 
duties with the same attention that he has given to his business and in 
discussing important questions has appeared to advantage in debate. He 
served on the Committees on Banks, Accounts, Centennial Affairs, Iron 
and Coal and on all that involved any work made himself a useful member. 






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7ILLIAM ORLANDO SMITH, of 
Jefferson County, was born at Rey- 
noldsville, Jefferson County, Pa., June 
: 3' l! ">59- His father was a civil engi- 
neer. The public schools of Jefferson 
County gave young Smith his education, 
and after graduating he learned the art 
of printing and has pursued his trade 
continuously since. For a short time he 
published the Reynolds Herald, a Repub- 
lican paper in Jefferson County. He then 
accepted a position in the Government 
Printing Office at Washington and re- 
mained there six years. While in Wash- 
ington he was one of a company of ten 
printers, connected with the office of pub- 
lic printing, to establish a paper called 
the Washington Craftsman, which was 
published in the interests of and as the official organ of the International 
Typographical Union and devoted to the interests of the printers connected 
with that organization. Mr. Smith was the first assistant editor of this 
paper. After the election of President Cleveland in 1884 he returned to his 
native county and connected himself with the Punxsutawney Tribune and the 
Punxsutawney Spirit, which papers he successfully edited. He was elected 
to the House in 1889 to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Francis Weaver, 
who resigned his seat as the Representative from Jefferson County. In 1890 
he was re-elected. After the close of the session of 1891 and during the 
summer immediately following he was connected with and edited the Brad- 
ford Era, McKean County. In January of the following year, 1892, Mr. 
Smith purchased a one-half interest in the Punxsutawney Spirit, an inde- 
pendent newspaper, and he is at the present time connected with and editor 
of that paper. In 1892 Mr. Smith was re-elected to the House of Represen- 
tives and again in 1894, the latter year receiving nearly 1,800 plurality. 
In 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Printing and also a member 
of the Committees on Appropriations, Judicial Apportionment, Mines and 
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10HN K. REINOKHL, of Lebanon 
County, is a native of that county, 
- having been born in Lebanon 
August 3, [858. He passed through the 
public schools of his native city, and 
after he had attended a course in its high 
school he prepared himself for a collegiate 
course at Swatara Institute, Jonestown, 
Lebanon County . At the completion of 
his preparatory course he entered Muhlen- 
burg College, at Allentown, Lehigh 
County, in 1875, from which college he 
was graduated in 1879. Returning to 
Lebanon he studied medicine with Dr. 
George P. Lineaweaver, a prominent and 
successful practitioner of medicine, and 
after he had finished his studies he 
attended a course in the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and was grad- 
uated therefrom on March 15, 1882. He then returned to Lebanon and 
at once began the practice of medicine and has built up a successful and 
lucrative practice. He had conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. 
M. by Muhlenburg College in 1882. He was a member of the National 
Guard of Pennsylvania from 187S to 1883, and receiving an honorable dis- 
charge when his enlistment expired, occupied the position of Coroner's 
Physician in Lebanon County from 1883 to 1885 and 1889 to 1891. In 1885, 
1886, 1890 and 1 89 1 he was a member of the Board of Health of Lebanon 
County and was secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons 
for Pensions when elected to the Legislature. Dr. Reinoehl is an active 
Republican and possessses the confidence of his party in Lebanon County and 
of his political associates in the Legislature. In 1S92 he was nominated for 
and elected to the House from Lebanon County and in 1894 received a plurality 
of over 3,100. In 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela- 
tions and also a member of the Committees on Corporations, Municipal 
Corporations, Public Buildings and Public Health and Sanitation. 




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NEVIN POMEROY, of Franklin 
County, was born May 27, 1859, i n 
Philadelphia. He lived in that city and 
at Pomeroy (named for his father) until 
1866, when his parents made their home 
at Pomeroy. In 1874 they removed to 
Chambersbnrg. Mr. Pomeroy was edu- 
cated in the common schools and Parkes- 
burg and Chambersburg Academies. 
Before he had attained his majority he 
took charge of the agency of the Adams 
express office in Chambersburg, which 
position he held four or five years. After 
devoting several years to the acquirement 
of the printing trade and to the work of 
a journeyman he was made reporter of 
the weekly Repository. In 1883 he became 
a partner with his father and brother in 
the publication of the paper which was conducted under the firm name of 
John M. Pomeroy & Sons. In 1887 Representative Pomeroy 's father died, 
and he and his brother, John H. Pomeroy, took charge of the paper. In 
T891 he assumed entire control of it and has successfully conducted it, as 
well as a popular daily, since. There is also connected with theplant a large 
job office. Mr. Pomeroy was a clerk in the office of the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth during the administration of Governor Beaver. For three 
years he was the chairman of the Republican Committee of Franklin County. 
He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention twice and has been 
actively identified with Republican politics since he cast his first vote. In 
1894 he received the largest majority ever obtained by a candidate for the 
Legislature in Franklin County, defeating George C. Cooke, Democrat, by 
1,909. Mr. Pomeroy was on the Committee appointed to investigate charges 
affecting the management of the Norristown and Wernersville Insane Hos- 
pitals and also served on the Committees on Judiciary Local, Judicial 
Apportionment, Public Health and Sanitation and Retrenchment and Re- 
form. To whatever duty he was assigned he devoted all his energies. 






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WORTH JENNINGS, who repre- 
sents in the House the old Democratic 

county of Sullivan, was born in West 
Pittston, Luzerne County, May 4, [862. 
In addition to receiving an education in 
the common schools he attended the 
Bloomsburg Normal School and the 
Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, his 
native county. At nineteen years he 
embarked in the lumber business and 
continued at it fourteen years, and is now 
largely interested in it at Lopez, Sullivan 
County, on the top of the Allegheny 
Mountains, located in one of the largest 
lumber districts in Pennsylvania. He 
has been a School Director seven years 
and Justice of the Peace six years, and 
was Postmaster at Lopez during the first 
administration of Cleveland, although a Republican. He is connected with 
a firm of hemlock manufacturers exceeded by few in the State in the extent 
of the material turned out. The average yearly output of the concern is 
about 15,000,000 feet. It is known as Jennings Bros, and was a pioneer in 
developing the lumber in the region indicated on a modern plan. The firm 
owns and operates fifteen miles of logging railroad, 12,000 acres of timber 
land and has a saw mill which works up 100,000 feet of lumber a clay. 
Mr. Jennings attended several Republican State Conventions and takes great 
interest iti politics in his county. Although Sullivan is one of the most 
sturdy Democratic counties in the State he carried it in 1894 by 358, the 
largest majority ever received by a Republican. He served on the Com- 
mittees on Elections, Iron and Coal, Health and Sanitation and Public 
Buildings. Mr. Jennings' active business experience has been a great aid to 
him in the Legislature. 




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MILTON HEIDELBAUGH. a promi- 
nent citizen of Bart Township, 
Lancaster County, was born April 19, 
1843. His father was a farmer and a 
life-long resident of southern Lancaster 
County. Mr. Heidelbaugh's family is of 
the Presbyterian faith. His education 
was obtained in the public schools and 
the Maple Grove Academy. After he 
left school he began to look around for 
some congenial employment. Not par- 
ticularly in love with farming, he tried 
teaching school and taught quite success- 
fully for three terms. He then engaged 
in the general merchandise business, and 
the next twenty years found him thus 
occupied at Nickel Mines, where, by his 
strict attention to business, he soon built 
up a large trade. He sold his store several years ago and removed his 
family to Lancaster, which affords better advantages for educating his 
children and is more convenient for his present business, that of manufactur- 
ing hard wood and lumber. He was considered an authority on all local 
matters and served as School Director for nine years, discharging his duties 
in that capacity faithfully and judiciously. Mr. Heidelbaugh's judgment 
is sound and not easily swayed by public opinion. He takes an active 
interest in politics and is a staunch Republican. He was elected by his 
party to the House of Representatives in 1885 and again in 1892 and 
in 1894, the latter year receiving about 4,000 plurality in the Second District 
of Lancaster County, which he in part represents, and served on the 
Committees on Judicial Apportionment, Judiciary Local, Manufactures, 
Vice and Immorality and Fish and Game. Mr. Heidelbaugh commands 
universal respect and esteem in the Legislature. 





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EORGE C. HOLLENBACH was 
J born November 7, [849, in Potts- 
grove Township, Montgomery County, 
Pa. His father died about six months 
afterward. He worked on a farm and 
attended the public school until the age 
of thirteen, after which he began boat- 
ing on the canal, which he followed for 
six years, when he entered the employ of 
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 
Company as lineman until the age of 
twenty-four. For two years he followed 
huckstering and then began farming. In 
[876 he entered the mercantile, together 
with the agricultural implement and real 
estate business, farming and fruit raising 
at Sanatoga, Pa., in which he is still 
engaged. He had been Postmaster at 
Sanatoga, Pa., for seventeen years, which position he resigned on December 
31, 1892. He is a director of the Citizens' National Bank of Pottstown, 
Pa., and of the American Protective Association of Reading. He is at 
present Auditor of the township in which he lives and also a member of the 
Royal Arcanum and the Odd Fellows Lodge. He is a member of the 
Immanuel Lutheran Church of Pottstown, Pa., and has been a constant 
member of the Sanatoga Union Sunday-school for many years. He was 
elected to the House of Representatives in 1892 and re-elected in 1894, 
leading the legislative ticket and receiving a plurality of over 3,000. In 
[895 he was a member of the Committees of Ways and Means, Agriculture, 
Counties and Townships, Labor and Industry and Pensions and Gratuities, 
in all of which he took an active part. 




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ALBERT SCOTT NEWMAN was 
born in Eaton Township, Wyoming 
County, on February 16, 1842. In 1847 
he moved with his parents to Canton, 
Bradford County, where his father en- 
gaged in the mercantile business, and 
where he received his education in the 
public and private schools. At the first 
call of President Lincoln for troops he 
enlisted in the service and served three 
months. Again in 1864, at the time of 
Lee's invasion, he enlisted and was in the 
Twenty-sixth Regiment, commanded by 
Colonel Jennings. In the Centennial 
year Mr. Newman, with others, formed, 
the Enterprise Manufacturing Company 
at Troy, Pa., for the manufacture of 
agricultural implements and which is yet 
in a nourishing condition. He was elected Burgess of Troy Borough and 
Delegate to the State Convention which nominated Robert Mackey for State 
Treasurer. In 1880 he moved to Smithfield, Bradford County, where he is 
now engaged in the mercantile business and farming, and for twelve years 
was in the School Board of that borough. At the election in 1893 he was 
returned as one of the three members from Bradford County by a plurality of 
nearly 3,000 and in 1894 by about 4,400. At the session of 1895 he was 
chairman of the Committee on Compare Bills and also a member of the 
Committees on Judiciary Local, Library, Manufactures and Public Buildings. 
During the session of 1893 he was called to Herrick, Bradford County, to 
attend the funeral of his grandfather, who died at the green old age of 101 
years. Mr. Newman attends faithfully to his duties in committee as well as 
in the House and is a useful, conscientious member. 





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pHARLES A. MUEHLBKONNER, 
V_^ one of the Representatives from tin- 
First District, Allegheny, was born in 
Philadelphia May ro, 1856. At an early 
age his parents located in Lagrange, Ohio, 
where his father enlisted in the Union 
Army as a cavalryman. After the war 
the family removed to Allegheny city and 
engaged in the milk business in the Sev- 
enth ward, where Charles delivered milk 
for some years, after which he obtained a 
position as clerk in a grocery store. A 
few years later he started in the produce 
business for himself. At that time Mr. 
Muehlbronner was appointed Tax Col- 
lector for the Seventh ward, which posi- 
tion he held for three years. He was a 
member of the Board of Comptrollers and 
held the office of Common Councilman at the same time for two terms. 
Subsequently he was elected to Select Council. After having served one- 
half of his term of four years he was elected a member of the House and is 
now serving his third term. Mr. Muehlbronner is actively engaged in the 
produce business, being manager of the Iron City Produce Company of 
Pittsburg. He was educated in the common schools and takes a common 
sense view of things political. He has been in public service continuously 
for fifteen years and has never been defeated in any office for which he has 
been a candidate, a proof of his popularity and the trust imposed in him by 
those who know him best. Mr. Muehlbronner is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Young Men's Republican Tariff 
Club of Pittsburg. He is a man of fine appearance, of suave manners and 
excellent business qualifications. His family consists of a wife and six 
children — two sons and four daughters. At the election in 1894 ne received 
a largely increased plurality over that obtained in 1S90 and 1892, defeating his 
Democratic competitor by over 2,500 votes. He was a member of the Com- 
mittees on Public Health and Sanitation, Vice and Immorality, Labor and 
Industry and Insurance and Muncipal Corporations. 




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k LIVER P. SCAIFE, one of the mem- 
bers from the First District of Alle- 
gheny City, was born July 15, 1869, in 
the district he represents. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the public schools, 
supplemented by courses of instruction in 
the Western University of Pennsylvania, 
in Allegheny City, and he was graduated 
from the Law Department of Yale Uni- 
versity in 1889, at the age of twenty years. 
Since then he has practiced law in Pitts- 
burg. In 1894 he was nominated by the 
Republicans as a candidate for the House 
from the First District of Allegheny 
County, and elected by a plurality of 
about 2,500, almost three times as large 
as the vote given either of the candidates 
on the Democratic ticket. Although one 
of the youngest members of the Legislature Mr. Scaife in the session of 1895 
was placed on the Committees on Judiciary General and Municipal Corpora- 
tions. He also served on the Committees on Federal Relations and Compare 
Bills. Mr. Scaife kept a close watch on any legislation of magnitude and 
when occasion justified participated to advantage in the discussion of import- 
ant questions under consideration in the House. 



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[7IUJAM T. MARSHALL was born 
in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, 
February 13, 1858. His father was at 
that time a blacksmith, but later went 
into the grocery business, in which the 
subject of this sketch was engaged with 
him for several years. Both of Mr. Mar- 
shall's parents were born in England, 
but emigrated to America while young. 
They were married in Allegheny City. 
Mr. Marshall was educated in the com- 
mon schools of Allegheny City and the 
Western University of Pennsylvania. He 
read law with the late Hon. Thomas 
M. Bayne, and was admitted to 
practice at the bar in Allegheny County 
in 1880. He is now in the natural 
gas business, being connected with the 
People's Natural Gas Company of Pittsburg. Mr. Marshall was Deputy 
Collector of Customs at the port of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, under Collector 
John F. Dravo, during the terms of Presidents Garfield and Arthur, from 1881 
until the advent of a Democratic administration retired him to private life in 
1885. He was the first delegate from the Second Legislative District of Alle- 
gheny, as now constituted, to the Republican State Convention of 1NX7, 
which nominated Hart for State Treasurer and Williams for the Supreme 
Court, and was the first Representative elected to the Legislature from that 
district in 18S8. He was re-elected by a handsome majority in 1890, again 
re-elected from the same district in 1892, and in 1894 had a plurality of over 
3,200. He served on the Appropriations Committee during the session of 
1889, was second member on that committee during the session of 1891, and 
was appointed chairman of the Committee for the Columbian session, 1893, 
filling the position to the satisfaction of everybody. In 1S95 he was honored 
with re-appointment as chairman of this important committee and was also 
a member of the Committees on Corporations, Judiciary Local, Library and 
Retrenchment and Reform. Mr. Marshall introduced the bill for the repeal 
of the act prohibiting the consolidation of company pipe lines, which has 
become a law. He has been one of the most popular and zealous members 
of the House for four sessions, and has made a very enviable record in every 
respect . 



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TyiujAM johx Mcdonald, one 



the very popular young mem- 
bers of the House, was born in Alle- 
gheny City, Pa., December 28, 1858, 
where his father was a general eon- 
tractor. The elder McDonald was a 
Republican from the organization of that 
party, and was a member of the Repub- 
lican County Committee of Allegheny 
County for about twenty years. The 
subject of this sketch very naturally 
drifted into political work and has been 
one of the best known workers in the 
partv in his district. As a contractor 
Mr. McDonald's father built many of the 
large buildings in Pittsburg. He was 
superintendent of construction of the 
Allegheny County Work-house and 
also of the Allegheny City Poor-house. He was appointed, in 1858, on 
the staff of Governor Pollock, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 
William John McDonald was educated in the public schools and the 
old Second Ward High School of Allegheny City. He also graduated 
from Duffs Business and Commercial College in 1876. The next year 
he entered the office of the Prothonotary of Allegheny County as paper 
boy and the year following was promoted to docket clerk of the Court 
of Common Pleas No. 1, which responsible position he held for ten years. 
During this term he read law under the direction of Hon. Thomas M. 
Marshall and James S. Young, Esq., and was admitted to practice at the bar 
of Allegheny County in 1883. Mr. McDonald represented the Second 
Ward in the Allegheny City Council in 1S87, 1888, 1889 and 1890. He 
was appointed in the last named year as Assistant United States Attorney 
for the Western District of Pennsylvania by President Harrison. He was a 
delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1890 and was elected a 
member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in November, 1892, from 
the Second Legislative District of Allegheny County by a good majority, 
but in 1894 he had nearly four times as many votes as were received by any 
of the Democratic legislative candidates and scored a plurality of about 
3,200. In 1895 he was a member of the Committees on Elections, Railroads 
(second man), Ways and Means, Congressional Apportionment and Vice 
and Immorality. Mr. McDonald is a member of McKinley Lodge No. 31 8, 
F. & A. M., of Allegheny Council, Duquesne Chapter, Pittsburg Com- 
mandery No. 1, Knights Templar, Pittsburg Consistory — Thirty-second 
Degree Masons — Syria Temple Nobles of Mystic Shrine and of the Jr. O. 
U. A. M. He is also a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association. 



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B. LEMON, who died 
serving his fifth term in the 
House from Allegheny County, was 
born in the adjoining county — Westmore- 
land — in June, 1844. He was educated 
in the common and private schools of the 
State. He had an exceptionally fine war 
record. Mr. Lemon enlisted in the 
gallant One Hundred and Fifty-fifth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by 
Colonel Pearson. He was severely 
wounded in 1864, at the battle of the 
Wilderness, and was discharged by rea- 
son of his wounds. Of the One Hundred 
and Fifty-fifth it is of record that the last 
man killed during the war was Private 
Harrison, of Company I, in the skirmish 
line in front of Richmond. Mr. Lemon 
was one of the most active as well as popular members of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, having been connected for many years with one of the largest 
Posts of Pittsburg. He was also a member of Union Veteran Legion No. 1, 
the oldest organization of the kind in the United States. He was serving his 
third term on the Soldiers' Orphan School Commission of Pennsylvania, an 
evidence that his comrade in arms and the State officials placed implicit con- 
fidence in his ability and integrity. At his home Mr. Lemon was honored 
with the Presidency of the South School Board, Second ward, Pittsburg, for 
four consecutive years. He was a delegate to the State Republican Conven- 
tion in 1885 and filled offices of trust with marked credit and ability. 
He was by occupation a traveling salesman, and had the essential qualities 
about him which make up an active business man, an alert legislator and a 
social, agreeable gentleman. At the election in 1894 he received a plurality 
of about 4,200, almost four times as large as the vote received by any of his 
Democratic opponents. Mr. Lemon was chairman of the Committee on 
Military and was also a member of the Appropriations, Legislative and other 
important Committees. Mr. Lemon died in New Vork City 011 Monday, 
April 29, 1S95, and at the session of the House held the same evening his 
colleague, Mr. Mackrell, announced his death. On motion of Mr. Stewart, 
of Philadelphia, a resolution was unanimously adopted providing for the 
appointment of fifteen members of the House to take suitable action on the 
death of the member from Allegheny. On the Tuesday night following his 
remains lay in state in the rotunda of the capitol and that night, accompanied 
by the House Committee, were removed to Pittsburg for interment. 



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ARCHIBALD MACKRELD, who in 
part represents the Third District oi 
Allegheny County, was born in Pitts- 
burg, August 26, 185S. After having 
received the benefits of a common school 
education he learned steel hammering, 
which business he has followed ever 
since. He has a position in the Labella 
steel works in Allegheny City, in which 
he has been employed the past six years. 
His candidacy for a seat in the Pennsyl- 
vania House of Representatives was his 
first political venture, and as he had no 
opposition for the nomination he had 
more luck than is possessed by aspirants 
for political positions generally. His elec- 
tion was almost as easily accomplished 
as his nomination, as he triumphed at 
the polls by a large majority. This is Mr. Mackrell's second term in the 
House, and he has attached to himself numerous warm personal friends. If 
his election in 1892 was obtained without difficulty that in 1894 was a walk- 
over, for he had over 4,200 plurality. In 1895 Mr. Mackrell was chairman 
of the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation, and served on the Com- 
mittees on Corporations, City Passenger Railways and Education and Print- 
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JOHN KEARNS, who for three terms 
has enjoyed the distinction of being 
the solitary Democrat of the Allegheny 
County delegation, is one of the most 
hard-working and popular members of 
the House of Representatives. He was 
born May 10, 1856, and received his 
education in the public schools. He has 
been engaged in Pittsburg's great iron 
and steel industry for the past twenty 
years. At the election of November, 
1892, Mr. Kearns was returned without 
opposition . On all his committees he was 
recognized as a force, because of his clear 
ideas and close application to business. 
Mr. Kearns does not pose as an orator, 
but when necessary makes a succinct 
and logical statement to the House that 
seldom fails to effect its object. He has given particular attention to the 
legislative needs of the workers who form a large portion of his constituency. 
At the session of 1893 he introduced a bill aimed at Pinkertonism and similar 
evils, and at the proper time secured a special order for its consideration in 
the House, making an argument which secured its passage practically with- 
out opposition. Mr. Kearns also made a plucky and determined struggle for 
the modification or repeal of the law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
oleomargarine. He has always taken an active part in the politics of Pitts- 
burg, where his hosts of friends have rendered him a powerful factor in local 
struggles. At the Capitol his qualities of earnestness, candor and honesty 
have obtained for him the respect of his colleagues, and for a minority mem- 
ber have given him a wide influence for general legislation. Notwithstand- 
ing the Republican landslide in 1894 he was easily re-elected. He was a 
member of the Committees on City Passenger Railways, Municipal Cor- 
porations, Ways and Means, Railroads and Public Buildings. 





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EMMETT EMERSON COTTON, one 
of the members of the House from 
the Fifth District of Allegheny County, 
was born April 4, 1854, in West Browns- 
ville, Washington County, Pa. In his 
youth he alternated between the work- 
shop and the public schools, and a part 
of his education was imparted by private 
tutors. He read law with Messrs. More- 
l^^^k land & Kerr and was an apt student. 

On June 12, 1877, he was admitted to 
the bar of Allegheny County, has been 
in active and successful practice ever 
since and stands high with the legal 
fraternity of Pittsburg. He was counsel 
for the Guardians of the Poor of that 
city in 1883, 1884 and 1885, and is a 
member of the law firm of Cotton & 
Holman. Mr. Cotton is thoroughly familiar with legal questions, and legis- 
lation involving them is readily and clearly discussed by him. He is recog- 
nized as a keen, logical and convincing debater on all subjects in 
which he takes any interest. Four years ago he had charge in the House of 
the Street Improvement Bills, particularly affecting Pittsburg, which became 
laws and have been put in operation and declared constitutional by the 
Supreme Court. At the session of 1893 he participated prominently in the 
discussion of the bill to provide revenue by the taxation of banks and offered 
an amendment to protect the interests of the State. At the session of 1895 
he introduced a number of bills in the interest of honest building and loan 
associations and was a member of the Judiciary General and other important 
committees. Mr. Cotton in 1877 ran on the Greenback-Labor ticket in 
Allegheny County for Assistant District Attorney, and although defeated by 
the Republican candidate for the office, carried the strong Republican Sena- 
torial district in which he resides. He remained in the ranks of the Green- 
backers for several years, and in 1 88 1 presided at the convention of that 
party which nominated Thomas A. Armstrong, of Pittsburg, for Governor 
of Pennsylvania. In 1884 he stumped West Virginia for James G. Blaine 
for President of the United States. He was elected to the House of 1891, 
re-elected in 1892 by a large majority, and re-elected in 1894 by 13,000 



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AVID ENGLAND WEAVER, who 
in part represents the Fifth Dis- 
trict of Allegheny county, was born in 
Steuben ville, Jefferson County, Ohio, 
December 9, 1848. He attended the 
.schools of his native city until thirteen 
years old, and after working a short time 
on a farm he entered the Steuben ville 
and Indiana Railroad shops for the pur- 
pose of becoming a machinist. The es- 
tablishment having been removed about 
two years after he had started his ap- 
prenticeship he connected himself with 
the works of the company at Dennison, 
Ohio, where he was employed six 
mouths, when he entered the Pittsburg 
Locomotive Works at Manchester and 
finished his trade. This was in 1866. 
Two years subsequently he became an employee of the American Iron 
Works and filled the position of machinist and roll turner until April, 1874, 
when he was appointed a storekeeper in the United States Revenue Service, 
which place he held until the fortunes of politics compelled him to sur- 
render it to a Democrat selected under the administration of President 
Cleveland. Mr. Weaver then resumed work in the American Iron Works 
until the people of his district elected him to represent them in the Legisla- 
ture in 1888. Not satisfied with thus complimenting him they have repeated 
the operation thrice, the last time by over 13,000 plurality. During the 
recesses of the Legislature Mr. Weaver has been employed in the Allegheny 
County Commissioners' Office as State Clerk. At the session of 1893 he 
served on the Committees on Municipal Corporations, City Passenger Rail- 
ways, Judicial Apportionment, Library and Vice and Immorality. At the 
session of 1895 he was Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Corpora- 
tions and served also on the Committees on City Passenger Railways, 
Railroads, Vice and Immorality and Compare Bills. 




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\ V IIJJAM M. CULBERTSON, a Rep- 
» ' resentative from the Fifth District of 
Allegheny County, was born in Westmore- 
land County, 1856. Before he was a year 
old his family removed to Pittsburg, in 
which city he has since resided. He was 
educated in the schools of Pittsburg and 
in the Western University, which institu- 
tion he left in 1875. He was employed 
in a book store subsequently for several 
years, when he took a course in the Na- 
tional School of Elocution in Philadel- 
phia to develop a talent which he pos- 
sessed. Mr. Culbertson is not a debater, 
but established a good reputation as an 
elocutionist in his city and taught the art 
for several 3^ears. He is now connected 
with a firm engaged in the real estate 
business, conveyancing and examination of titles. Mr. Culbertson began the 
study of law with the firm of Moreland & Kerr, of Pittsburg, but he aban- 
doned the idea of connecting himself with the profession. He represented 
his district in the Common Council of Pittsburg for seven years. In 1890 he 
received his first nomination as a candidate for the House, and his constituents 
appreciated his services so well that they sent him back to the Legislature 
twice — in 1894 by over 13,000 more votes than any Democratic Legislative 
candidate in his district obtained. At the session of 1893 he was on the 
Corporations, Insurance, Legislative Apportionment and other Committees, 
and at the last session he served on the same Committees, and was chairman 
of that on Legislative Apportionment. Of Mr. Culbertson it may be truth- 
fully said that Allegheny County could not have sent a more popular man 
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EO. L~ McFARLANE, one of the 
Representatives from the Fifth Dis- 
trict of Allegheny County, was born near 
Irwin Station, Westmoreland County, 
November 22, 1850. His education was 
begun in the common schools and com- 
pleted in the Western University of 
Pittsburg and Washington and Jefferson 
College. At the age of twenty-one he 
bought an interest in the firm of Wm. 
Welsh & Co., wholesale grain and flour 
dealers, Pittsburg, where he remained in 
business several years. In 1SS6 he con- 
nected himself with the street railway 
business and was chosen secretary of the 
Pittsburg Traction Company. On the 
organization of the Duquesne Traei.Iun 
Company he became its manager and 
retained that position until the consolidation of the two corporations. For 
the past three years he has followed the occupation of a stock and bond 
broker, in which business he has made an enviable reputation in Western 
Pennsylvania. He has been active in Pittsburg politics and is a warm sup- 
porter of the Republican Party, by which he was nominated in 1894 and 
elected by a plurality of about 13,000. Mr. McFarlanewas a member of the 
Committees on Municipal Corporations and Street Railways among others. 
These are important committees, and they, with other legislative duties, kept 
him busy. All responsibilities which his position in the House placed on 
him were met with ability and energy. 




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TAMES McB. ROBB, who represents 
in part the Sixth District of Alle- 
gheny Comity, was born in North Fay- 
ette Township , that county, July 2, 1847. 
He received a common school education 
and when about eighteen years old began 
teaching, continuing two years. In 1878 
he was Assistant Postmaster of the House 
and in 1883 held the position of Clerk to 
the President pro ton. of the Senate. 
He has been employed seven years in the 
Treasurer's office of Allegheny County 
and was Night Warden of the Allegheny 
County jail one year. He also served 
as School Director of Carnegie Borough. 
Mr. Robb's previous experience in the 
Legislature was a great assistance to him, 
having thoroughly familiarized him with 
the duties of the office. His popularity at the election in 1894 was shown 
in the fact that he received an unprecedented majority in his district, 
defeating both his Democratic competitors by over 5,600. His vote was 
almost three times as large as that cast for the Democratic candidates for the 
Legislature. Mr. Robb is the successor of Captain Nesbit, appointed 
Superintendent of the State Arsenal by Governor Hastings. He was a 
member of the Committees on Railroads, Education, Iron and Coal and 
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ATTHEW McLANAHAN WIL- 
SON was born June 8, 1831, in 
Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, 
Pennsylvania. His father was a farmer 
and both his parents were of Scotch-Irish 
blood and Presbyterians by faith. They 
removed from Adams County, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1784, to what was then the 
western frontier, but is now Allegheny 
County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson re- 
ceived his education in the common 
schools and engaged in the occupation of 
farming and milling on the farm on which 
he was born and continued until 1887, 
since which time he has been in the livery 
business in the town of Homestead, 
Pennsylvania. Captain Wilson, in August, 
[862, enlisted as a private in Company I), 
Fourteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was commissioned Second 
Lieutenant at the organization of the company, and afterward promoted suc- 
cessively to the positions of First Lieutenant and Captain. He was mustered 
out with the regiment at Fort Leavenworth in August, 1865, having served in 
the campaigns of Averill, Hunter and Sheridan. He also served as military 
inspector of cavalry and artillery horses in the department of West Virginia, 
by order of Secretary of War Stanton. He is a member and in 1892 was 
Commander of Post No. 207, G. A. R., at Homestead, and is a member of 
Camp No. 1, Union Veteran Legion, at Pittsburg. Captain Wilson has 
occupied the offices of School Director, taking an active interest in the 
school system, as Township Assessor and Burgess of the Borough of Home- 
stead. He was elected a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania from 
the Sixth Allegheny District, in November, 1892, by a flattering majority, 
but in 1894 he greatly eclipsed it, receiving 5,500 more than the highest 
Democratic Legislative candidate. At the session of 1893 ^ r - Wilson 
introduced the act passed by the Legislature of that year appropriating 
$163,000 for the complete re-equipment of the National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania to harmonize with the equipment of the soldiers of the regular army 
of the United States. In 1895 he was Chairman of the Committee on 
Pensions and Gratuities, and also a member of the Committees on Centennial 
Affairs, Legislative Apportionment, Mines and Mining and Counties and 
Townships and was one of the most attentive members of the House. 



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OSEPH T. RICHEY, one of the 
Representatives in the House from 
Allegheny County, was born November 
29, 1844, in Economy Township, Beaver 
County, Pennsylvania. His father was 
one of the founders of the Republican 
Party in Lafayette Hall, Pittsburg, and 
his grandfather participated in the Rev- 
olutionary War. Shortly after Repre- 
sentative Richey's advent into the world 
his father removed with his family to 
Allegheny County. When a boy the 
subject of this sketch worked on a farm. 
He received a common school education 
and subsequently learned carpentry and 
engineering. At the age of twenty- two 
years he was married. In 1 869 he assumed 
charge of the carpenter work and repairs 
at the Dixmont hospital and in 1874 he was promoted by being appointed 
engineer of gas and water works at the same institution. From 1874 to 
1882 he acceptably filled the position of Postmaster at Dixmont. He was 
also ticket and freight agent for eight years. He has been President of the 
School Board of Killbuck Township for the past fifteen years. In 1882 he 
was appointed Deputy Sheriff by William McCallin, which place he has 
held ever since. In 1886 he was appointed Director of the Poor of Alle- 
gheny County, and in 1887 elected to the same office for three years, followed 
in 1890 by a re-election for a similar term to the same office. He has always 
been an active Republican and has the confidence of his constituents without 
regard to party. His course in the House has uniformly met the approval 
of those who sent him to the Legislature. In 1895 he was a member of the 
Committees on Agriculture, Counties and Townships, Education and 
Library. Mr. Richey is serving his second term in the House, having been 
elected in 1892 and 1894, in t*ie latter year by about 4,200 plurality. 




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SAMUEL WALLACE, representing the 
Seventh District of Allegheny County, 
was born in the part of Pine Township, 
which is now McCandless Township, Alle- 
gheny County, Pennsylvania, in the dis- 
trict he now represents, on May 31, 1839. 
Mr. Wallace's father was one of the pio- 
neer settlers in the northern part of Alle- 
gheny County, having located, with his 
father, on a farm in that part of Pine 
Township in 1798, and lived there until 
his death in his eighty-seventh year. The 
elder Wallace was American by birth and 
of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a Justice 
of the Peace for many years. Mr. Wal- 
lace's mother was born in Ireland, but 
came to America in her early youth. She 
lived to the ripe age of ninety-one years. 
Mr. Wallace was educated in the common schools. At the beginning of the 
civil war he enlisted, on April 24, 1861, in Company G, Fourteenth Regi- 
ment, Indiana Volunteers, being at that time temporarily located in that 
State. He re- enlisted in the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was honor- 
ably mustered out of service at the close of the war. He is a charter mem- 
ber and past commander of Gen. A. A. Humphrey's Post 545, Department of 
Pennsylvania, G. A. R. Mr. Wallace was Transcribing Clerk of the House 
at the session of 1873 and 1874 and clerk to the President pro tempore of the 
Senate of the session of 1877. From that time until 1880 he was engaged in 
farming, and since then has given his attention to insurance and oil and 
natural gas business. Mr. Wallace is a member of the Mill vale Borough 
School Board and has been president of the Board the last three terms. He 
was elected to the Legislature in 1892 by a plurality of over 2,500, which 
was increased to about 4,200 in 1894. Li lS 95 ne ^ T as a member of the 
Committees on City Passenger Railways, Vice and Immorality, Constitutional 
Reform, Compare Bills and Legislative Apportionment. 




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"HOMAS TILLBROOK, of Alle- 



sailles Township, in the same county, 
June 9, 1839. When six years old his 
father removed to a farm in Westmore- 
land County, in which county young 
Tillbrook was educated in the common 
schools. In 1862 the latter enlisted in 
the Union Army, from Westmoreland 
County, in the One Hundred and Thirty- 
sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, and remained in the service until 
the expiration of his term. He took 
part in the battles of Antietam, Fred- 
ericksburg and Chancellorsville. On his 
return from the war he located in Mc- 
Keesport. In 18S1 he was elected 
Justice of the Peace of the Third Ward 
of that borough. In 1883, 1S84 and 1885 he was chosen Burgess of the 
town. From 1885 to 1890 he was engaged in the real estate business. In 
the latter year he was again honored with election as Burgess, and the same 
year had the distinction of being chosen Mayor of the new-made city of 
McKeesport, in accordance with recent legislation empowering the Gov- 
ernor to proclaim boroughs cities under certain conditions. His term 
expired in 1894, and in November of that year he was chosen a member of 
the House by a majority of 4,300, more than three times as large as the 
vote obtained by his Democratic competitor. Mr. Tillbrook served on the 
Committees on Education, Mines and Mining and Military Affairs. He was 
an uncompromising opponent of the movement to create a Greater Pitts- 
burg by annexing to it Allegheny City and many towns and townships in 
Allegheny County, working up sentiment wherever possible against the bill 
having that object in view. 






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KXRY F. JAMES, of Venango 
County, son of Edwin and Sarah 
G. (Sandsbury) James, was born in Nan- 
tucket, Mass., on December 3, 1841. He 
learned the trade of a cooper and after- 
wards engaged in the whaling business, 
acquiring a good knowledge of naviga- 
tion and having for years braved the 
perils of the deep. In 1S61 he removed 
to Venango County, Pa., attracted by 
the petroleum development. Early in 
1S64 he superintended important oil in- 
terests at Pithole. In 187 1 he removed to 
Sugar Creek Township to take charge of 
the Franklin pipe-line. Soon he leased 
a large part of the old McCalmont farm 
and began operating on his own account, 
meeting with much success. His prac- 
tical skill did him good service and he drilled scores of profitable wells in 
the lubricatory districts, many of which are producing to-day. With char- 
acteristic energy he entered into every project calculated to benefit the com- 
munity. For many years he has been a prominent School Director, always 
taking a leading share in furthering the cause of education. The public 
schools of Sugar Creek have no warmer, wiser friend, and to his efforts 
their high standard of excellence is largely attributable. He was also one 
of the organizers and, during its entire existence, an active director of the 
Venango Agricultural Society. In 1866 he married Miss Susan Hunter, of 
Nantucket, who bore him two children, Bertha and Frank. The happy 
family occupy a handsome home near Franklin, on the farm which Mr. James 
cultivates and where most of his oil wells are located. He pays close atten- 
tion to the best methods of improving the soil, has done splendid work in the 
direction of better roads, and keeps abreast of the times in stock-raising and 
kindred pursuits. Mr. James is in the very prime of vigorous manhood and 
an earnest Republican. He is serving his third term in the Legislature, 
having been re-elected in 1894 by an immense majority. His sturdy defense 
of the rights of his constituents, when adverse legislation threatened grave 
disaster to the producers of Venango and adjacent counties, won him the 
confidence of all classes, irrespective of party. He is a ready speaker, a man 
of unquestioned integrity, personally hospitable, a profound hater of shams, 
influential with his fellow -members, and in every way admirably qualified to 
represent an intelligent, progressive constituency. In 1893 and 1895 Mr. 
James was chairman of the Committee on Counties and Townships and also a 
member of the Committees on Appropriations, Corporations, Public Health 
and Sanitation and Wavs and Means. 



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JOHN B. COMPTON, of Crawford 
County, was born in Mead Town- 
- ship, Crawford County. November ij f 
1835. His early education was received 
in the common schools and Meadville 
Academy. Subsequently he attended 
Allegheny College in Meadville, and 
while there responded to the first call 
by President Lincoln for United States 
troops. After serving his term of enlist- 
ment he returned and graduated from the 
college in the spring of 1861. In the 
fall of 1 86 1 Mr. Compton enlisted in 
the Eighty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, commanded by Colonel John 
W. McLain. He was promoted from 
private to first sergeant of his company 
soon after his enlistment. He partici- 
pated in a number of important engagements and at the battle of Gaines' 
Mills was wounded June 27, 1S62. On the 1st of July following he sus- 
tained a serious gun-shot wound at Malvern Hill, in which encounter he 
had command of his company. His wounds resulted in his discharge on 
October 29, 1862. On his return home Mr. Compton was elected Prothono- 
tary of Crawford County and served one term of three years. While in that 
office he commanded a company of emergency men raised to defend the 
State from rebel incursions. In June, 1868, he was admitted to the practice 
of the law in Crawford County. In September 1, 1873, he was appointed 
aid-de-camp on Governor Hartranft's staff with the rank of colonel. He 
served during the Pittsburg riots in 1877 and remained on duty for six weeks. 
He was an aid-de-camp continuously for seventeen years, while Hart- 
ranft was Governor and Major General of the National Guard. Colonel 
Compton was then placed on the retired list with full rank. In 187 2, 1S88 
and i8Sq he was chairman of the Crawford County Republican Committee, 
and during that time no man 011 the Republican ticket in the county sus- 
tained defeat. He was a delegate to the State Conventions of 1873 and 1891 
and was one of the commissioners to the Presbyterian General Assembly at 
Washington, D. C, which tried Dr. Briggs for heresy. In view of his 
valuable party services he was in 1894 nominate:! as one of the Repub- 
lican candidates for the Legislature and was elected by a plurality of 
over 3,000. Colonel Compton is an effective stump speaker. At the 
October election in 1864 he was appointed one of the commissioners to take 
the Pennsylvania Soldiers' vote at Washington, D. C, and at the subse- 
quent presidental election was secretary of the Board of Commissioners 
delegated to take the vote of Pennsylvania soldiers in the Army of the 
Potomac and was personally complimented by General Grant for the faithful 
discharge of his duties. Colonel Compton was a member of the Committees 
on Judiciary General, Military, Public Buildings and Grounds and Peusions- 
and Gratuities. On all important questions he took a conspicuous part. 



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T ROSS RAYMOND, of Krie County, 

I . was born in Greenfield Township, 

Erie County, October [9, 1X42. The 

schools in tlie vicinity in which he lived 
afforded him all the education he received. 
When nineteen years old his patriotic 
ardor swung him into the Union Army, 
in which he did valiant service as one of 
its soldiers. He enlisted in the fall of 
1 86 1 and served three years and five 
months. He participated in the battles 
of Charlestown and Cedar Creek, Va. , after 
which he was taken a prisoner and kept 
in confinement until after the battle of 
Antietam in Libby and Belle Isle prisons, 
when he was paroled with the last squad 
that left Richmond in the fall of 1862. 
He was captured on the Rnppahannock 
river while attached to the provost guard under General Pope, who was 
then retiring from the enemy with his army. Mr. Raymond also took part in 
the battles of Chancellorsvilie and Gettysburg. Subsequently his command 
was transferred to the West, and he participated in the battles of Wahatchie, 
Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Ringgold Gap. He also had the 
distinction of taking part in Sherman's march to the sea, during which he 
fought at Resaca, Dallas and Peach Tree Creek, and was in all the engage- 
ments of the campaign to July 20. At the last named place he lost a leg on 
July 20, 1S64, and in its place he now carries a wooden one. Since his 
return from the war he has been engaged in the mercantile and hotel 
business in addition to auctioneering for the past twenty years. He resides 
at North East, Erie County, where he has filled a number of offices. He has 
represented the Republican Party, of which he is a consistent and active 
member, at Congressional and other conventions. In J892 he was first 
elected to the House, and in 1894 his people returned him by a largely 
increased majority. His father, who was born in Boston, was of French 
descent, and his mother was born in New York State. Mr. Raymond served 
on the Committees on Appropriations, Congressional Apportionment, Mil- 
itary, Retrenchment and Reform and gave close attention to important bills 
considered and was not slow to point out defects and suggest either necessary 
modifications or negative action when to him it seemed that such a course 
was justified. 






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AVID B. DOUTHETT, of Butler 
County, is a native Pennsylvanian, 
having been born near Brownsdale, in the 
county in which he represents, on Octo- 
ber 27, 1S40. His parents were Joseph 
and Rebecca (Magee) Douthett, well 
known residents of that locality and 
highly esteemed by their neighbors and 
acquaintances. They always lived on 
the farm near Brownsdale. Mr. Douthett 
was educated in the common schools and 
at Witherspoou Institute at Butler, Pa. 
He taught school from 1857 until 1861, 
when he enlisted at Brownsdale for three 
years in Company H, One Hundred and 
Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, and served under General Mc- 
Clellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade and 
Grant. He took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks. White Oak 
Swamp, Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Williamsport, 
Second Fredericksburg, Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Chantilly, 
the Wilderness and many other battles and skirmishes. He re-enlisted with 
his regiment near Brandy Station, Va., and was given a veteran furlough 
for thirty days, after which he rejoined his command, being finally 
mustered out with his regiment near Washington, D. C, June 28, 
1865. Mr. Douthett was slightly wounded at Williamsburg — Fort 
Magruder — on the Peninsula, and his hat was perforated by a minnie ball at 
the second battle of Freaericksburg. He was severely injured in the battle 
of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, receiving a wound through the left thigh. 
He was treated for two months at Findlay Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
then at Philadelphia and afterwards at Pittsburg, Pa.; and when only par- 
tially recovered he rejoined his regiment before Petersburg, Va., and partici- 
pated in the closing campaign of the Army of the Potomac with General 
Grant. Mr. Douthett was Justice of the Peace ten years, a School Director 
for twelve years, and President of the Board of School Directors of his county 
for a number of years. He served three terms as Postmaster at Brownsdale, 
was mercantile appraiser of Butler County in 1 890, and was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Pattison as a delegate to the Farmers' National Congress, which met 
at Sedalia, Mo., in 1891. He is a member of Captain William Stuart Post, 
No. 573, G. A. R., and of Encampment No. 45, Union Veteran Legion. In 
1892 he was elected to the Legislature by a good majority and in 1894 
re-elected by a plurality of over 2,400. Mr. Douthett is always active in 
the politics of his county, and his political rewards by popular vote attest 
the esteem in which he is held better than anvthine that can be said ot him. 



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WILLIAM N. CURTIS, who, as a 
Republican, enjoys the distinction 
of representing an old Democratic county 
i Wayne i, was horn in Scranton, April 
15) IiS 57- He is the second son of 
Moses Curtis, and when he was seven 
years old his father moved on a farm in 
Canaan, Wayne County. In summer he 
assisted his father on the farm and in 
the winter attended the public schools 
until he attained his majority. At the 
age of twenty -two years he went to 
Ripon, Wisconsin, where he entered the 
service of a prosperous farmer, serving 
as his foreman for two years. In Janu- 
ary, [882, he married Miss Lena A. 
Morey, of Ripon, the daughter of an 
extensive fanner. Mr. Curtis' brother 
and brother-in-law are all engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he is a promi- 
nent member of his local Grange, in whose organization he was active. In 
April, 1. Sep, he purchased his father's farm, containing one hundred and 
thirty-three acres, which was part of the original grant made by the Com- 
monwealth to his great-grandfather, Henry Curtis. Representative Curtis 
has followed farming since he was a boy. In conjunction with it he did a 
profitable business as a shipper of horses for six years, from 1885. His 
first nomination for member of the House was a surprise to him, as he did 
not enter the field for the place. He was not present at the convention 
which selected him, and no delegate to it was solicited for his vote by him. 
His selection was simply a recognition of his worth, and the people o{ 
Wayne County ratified the action of his party by electing him. In view of 
the faithful performance of his duties in the Legislature of 1893 his party 
re-nominated Mr. Curtis in 1894 and elected him by a majority of about 
700 over his Democratic colleague of the session of two years ago and 1,000 
over the other Democratic candidate. He is a very popular and industrious 
member of the House and displayed particular interest in measures to 
promote the interests of the farmers of Pennsylvania. At the session of 
[895 he served on the Committees on Agriculture, Counties and Townships, 
Public Health and Sanitation and Insurance. 



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SEANOR, of Indiana, was born 
in 1844, in Westmoreland County, 
where his parents then resided on a 
farm. His father died when Noah was 
but seven years old. Mr. Seanor worked 
principally on the farm and attended 
the public schools of his township and 
county until the war broke out, when he 
enlisted in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania 
Cavalry. His company withdrew shortly 
after his enlistment and was organ- 
ized with the Eighteenth Pennsylvania 
Cavalry. He was taken prisoner near 
the Chantilly battlefield by the First 
Virginia Cavalry, commanded by Cap- 
tain Mosby. The opportunity was given 
him to take his parole or go to Libby 
Prison. He accepted the former, and, 
in the summer of 1863, was discharged and moved to Indiana County in 
1864, and the following winter he re-enlisted and joined the Twenty-eighth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers and served with his regiment to the close of the 
war. Mr. Seanor then resumed farming and stock raising and also shipping 
all kinds of live stock, in which he is still engaged. He has always taken 
an active interest in all matters pertaining to farming and is one of the best 
informed men in the State on agricultural subjects. He has served a term 
as one of the managers of the Indiana and Dayton Agricultural Societies 
and has also been president of the latter organization. He was unanimously 
chosen by the Dayton Agricultural Society to represent Armstrong County 
on the State Board in the year 1890. In 1892 he was elected as a member 
of the State Board of Agriculture from Indiana County. In the same year 
he was chosen as one of the vice-presidents and also re-elected again in 
1893. Mr. Seanor was elected a member of the House of Representatives in 
1890, 1892 and 1894. H<s was the first Representative returned to the 
Legislature from Indiana County for the third term. In 1895 Mr. Seanor 
was chairman of the Committee on Geological Survey and also served 
on the Committees on Agriculture, Health and Sanitation, Military and 
Game and Fish. Mr. Seanor is also a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public and has been an earnest champion of the cause of the farmer, whose 
wants he thoroughly understands. He is an active and energetic member of 
the Legislature, always in his seat and ever ready to advocate such bills 
as are for the public good. In the session of 1S91 he made a bard but 
ineffective fight for the passage of an anti-discrimination bill. He was one 
of the most fearless exponents of the bill to abolish the sale or gift of 
liquor on Decoration Day. 



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JOHN A. KIPP was horn in Greene 
J Township, Pike County, Pa., on the 
2 2(1 day of February, A. I). [849. He is 
the fifth son of a family of twelve children, 
attended a common school of his neigh- 
borhood up to the age of fourteen and 
worked on a farm and in a lumber woods 
for his father until he became twenty-one 
years of age. After arriving at his majority 
he started out in pursuit of an education by 
earning his own way as the opportunity 
offered. At the age of twenty-two he 
entered the State Normal School at 
Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa., where he 
continued during the winter term for 
three successive years, then changing to 
the State Normal School at Millersville, 
Lancaster County, where he spent three 
terms of school. He then began the profession of teaching and taught at 
Sylvauia, Tioga County, at Mountain House, Monroe County, at Kipptown 
and Sugarhill, where he first attended school in Pike County, and at New- 
foundland, Wayne County, Pa. He was married to Adelia C. Wolfe, of 
South Sterling, Wayne Count}-, Pa., in 187s. He was elected County 
Superintendent of the schools of Pike County in May, 1878, and was 
re-elected to that position four times and served until November 30, 1892, 
when he resigned to take his seat in the House of Representatives of Penn- 
sylvania, to which position he had been elected in November, 1892. In 
1894 he was re-elected. He entered the stud}' of law at the age of thirty-six 
years in the office of Hon. D. M. Van Auken at Milford, Pa., and was 
admitted to practice in his native county at the age of forty. He has twice 
filled the office of Chief Burgess of Milford Borough and twice served as 
Democratic Chairman of his county. In 1895 he was a member of the 
Committees on Judiciary General, Legislative Apportionment, Public 
Buildings, Municipal Corporations and Centennial Affairs. 




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WNEWTON PORTER, of West- 
. morel and County, was born in 
Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pa., 
on June 22. 1843. He was brought up 
as a farmer boy on his father's farm, near 
Brownsville, Pa. He received his educa- 
tion in the common schools in the dis- 
trict and afterwards attended the Mer- 
rittstown Academy . After leaving school , 
having taken a fancy to mechanics, he 
learned the machinist's trade at Browns- 
ville, Pa., in 1864-65, during which 
period he married Miss Mary Braithwaite, 
an estimable young lady eighteen years 
of age. One daughter graces this name. 
Mr. Porter worked at his trade until 1873, 
when he became foreman of the National 
Locomotive Works of Connellsville, Pa., 
which position he held until 1879, when he resigned to take charge of the 
Scottdale rolling mill as chief engineer and mill-wright. He occupied this 
position until 1884, when he resigned to enter newspaper work, in which he 
was engaged either as editor or manager until October 1, 1892. In 1884 he 
entered the political arena and was elected Councilman for one year in +he 
borough of Scottdale and was re-elected for the term of 1885-86. After hav- 
ing filled this office with much credit to himself and citizens, he was elected 
Burgess of the same borough and served for three terms, 1S87-88-89. He 
was nominated on the Republican ticket for Assembly in 1890 but was de- 
feated, with the balance of the ticket, by a small plurality. In 1892 he was 
re-nominated by the same party but was declared defeated by nine votes by 
W. R. Barnhart on the official returns. It was afterward learned that 
a clerical error had occurred in the Bessimer election precinct, which, when 
fully investigated, resulted in a tie vote of 10,765 each for Barnhart 
and Porter. A contest was inaugurated, which resulted in Porter being de- 
clared by the commission and judge of the county elected by a majority of 
eighty-two votes. In 1894 ^ r - Porter was re-elected by a plurality of over 
4,300. At the session of 1895 he was a member of the Committees on Con- 
gressional Apportionment, Centennial Affairs, Counties and Townships, 
Labor and Industry, Mines and Mining and Iron and Coal. 



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B. HUNTER, of Westmoreland 

.. County, was born December 17, 
[848, in South Huntingdon Township. 

He is the son of a farmer and received 
a moderate education in the common 
schools of his neighborhood, attending 
between the years of 1858 and [866, but 
was only allowed to take advantage of a 
few months of the term, being compelled 
by circumstances to remain at home and 
assist his father with the farm work. 
He is of Scotch-Irish descent and was 
the only son, and, of course, much of the 
work fell upon him when his father was 
called away from home. He followed 
the occupation of farmer until he was 
twenty-one years of age. Mr. Hunter 
took unto himself a wife when he was 
twenty-six years old in the person of Miss Sarah F. Bell, a talented young 
lady living with her parents in his neighborhood. The wedding took place 
September 15, 1S74. In 1879 he was elected Township Auditor, in a Demo- 
cratic township, by a majority of over 100. This alone showed the high 
esteem in which he was held by his fellow-men at his own home. He was 
very successful in all his political work, as with all other undertakings. In 
1885 Mr. Hunter was chosen a delegate to the Republican State Convention 
at Harrisburg. He has been a very successful farmer and stock raiser and 
has devoted all his life to farming. He is at present president of the Se- 
wicklev Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with headquarters at Mendon, 
Mr. Hunter's home. He is the father of eight children, all of whom are 
living. The oldest, a son, is farming. In 1S92 he was a candidate for Repre- 
sentative from his district, but was declared defeated by the official vote as re- 
turned by 33 votes. The contest that ensued resulted in Mr. Hunter's elec- 
tion over Eli Waugaman by 52 votes, as decided by Judge Doty, of West- 
moreland County, who declared that Mr. Hunter was entitled to the certifi- 
cate. He was seated March 14. In 1894 Mr. Hunter was re-elected by the 
highest plurality of any legislative candidate on the Republican ticket. At 
the session of 1895 he was a member of the Committees on Constitutional 
Reform, Judicial Apportionment, Legislative Apportionment, Military and 
Vice and Immorality. 



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CB. ZULICK, of Northampton 
. County, was born June 30, 1836, in 
Easton, and received a common school 
education. At the completion of his 
school days he entered the book and 
music store of his father, Anthony 
Zulick, in Easton. In 1858 he asso- 
ciated himself with his father under the 
name of A. Zulick & Son, and carried 
on the same business under the firm 
name until 1870. when the elder Zulick 
died and the subject of this sketch suc- 
ceeded to the business, which he con- 
tinued until 1876. Since that time he 
has been sales agent for anthracite and 
bituminous coal operators. Mr. Zulick 
is a Democrat and has been actively 
associated in all his party's political 
work for about forty years, and has been a member of the Democratic 
County Committee for over one-half of this time. He has served as Treas- 
urer of the Easton City Democratic Executive Committee for several years. 
He has been a State Bank Assessor of this State for two years, and in 1892 
was elected one of the Representatives from Northampton County and in 
1894 was re-elected. Mr. Zulick is one of a family of six brothers who have 
been active and successful business men. Col. Thomas C. Zulick, the eldest 
brother, was for a number of years connected with the Mine Hill and Schuyl- 
kill Valley Railroad before and after its connection with the Philadelphia and 
Reading Railroad, and was the general superintendent of the Canal Com- 
pany over which the shipments of coal from Schuylkill Haven (then the 
principal point of departure of coal from the Schuylkill region for the sea 
board and other points of distribution) were made. Another brother was 
the Hon. C. Meyer Zulick, at one time Governor of Arizona. Mr. Zulick 
at the session of 1895 was assigned to the Committees on Appropriations, 
Constitutional Reform, Counties and Townships, Fish and Game and 
Judicial Apportionment. 




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UMPHREY J. MILLARD, of Sus- 
quehanna County, was born Decem- 
ber 24, 1843, in Lennox, Susquehanna 
Comity. He was thrown upon his own 
resources by the death of his mother in 
early life. He attended as much as pos- 
sible the district schools and private semi- 
naries until eighteen years old. In 1862 
he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred 
and Forty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and served in the United 
States service until the close of the war. 
He participated in thirty engagements, 
the most important of which were Freder- 
icksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spott- 
sylvania, North Anne, Cold Harbor and 
all the battles in front of Petersburg. He 
was also present at the surrender of Lee 
at Appomattox. At the close of the war Mr. Millard returned home and con- 
tinued his studies under the personal instruction of John H. Harris, LL. D., 
now president of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, for two years. In 1870 
he was ordained to the ministry, in which he has been very successful, especi- 
ally in evangelistic work. In connection with his professional duties he has 
for over twenty years owned and managed a farm in Rush Township, Sus- 
quehanna County. Mr. Millard was elected a member of the Legislature in 
1892 and re-elected in 1894. He is an active member of Bissell Post, No. 
406, Grand Army of the Republic, and for a number of years has delivered 
addresses at different places on Memorial Day. While not a politician 
he has always taken an interest in politics. He is a firm believer in the prin- 
ciples of the Republican Party, and cast his first vote in front of Petersburg 
when Abraham Lincoln was a candidate for re-election. At the same time 
he served on the Election Board. He was married September 12, 1866, to 
Miss Baldwin, of New Milford, Susquehanna Comity, Pa., and his family con- 
sists of two sons and one daughter. At the session of 1895 Mr. Millard was 
a member of the Committees on Agriculture, Vice and Immorality, Geologi- 
cal Survev and Accounts. 






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k RANKLIN A. COMLY was a son of 
the late Samuel Willett Comly and 
nephew and namesake of the late Frank- 
lin A. Comly, president of the North 
Pennsylvania Railroad from 1857 until 
his death, in 1887. His father was in the 
milling business at the old Spruce mill, 
on the Wissahiekon creek, below Thorp's 
lane, Chestnut Hill. In 1850 he moved 
to the mill in White Marsh, where Frank- 
lin A. Comly was born, February 17, 1856. 
He acquired his schooling in the district 
until he went to Swarthmore College, 
Delaware County, in 1872. After serving 
two terms he entered the Friends' Central 
School, Fifteenth and Race streets, and 
then took a business course at Bryant & 
Stratton's, Tenth and Chestnut streets, 
Philadelphia, after which he became connected with the Bound Brook Rail- 
road in the freight depot, when the road opened in 1876, at Second and Berks 
streets. In 1878 he received the contract to deliver all the New York freight 
of the Bound Brook Railroad in Philadelphia. After two years he connected 
himself with the Produce Commission business on South Water street, Phila- 
delphia. In May, 1884, his father died, and he took charge of the farm until, 
in 1890, the Pennsylvania Railroad bought the farm, as the New Trenton 
Cut-off Railroad runs through it. Mr. Comly was born in White Marsh 
Township and lived in the same district when elected to the Leg slature in 
November, 1892. Montgomery County was exceptionally close, three can- 
didates being elected by less than ten votes, one of them (the sheriff) only 
having one majority in a vote of over 28,000. In 1S94 he was re-elected by 
nearly 3.000 plurality. In 1895 Mr. Comly was chairman of the Committee 
on Labor and Industry and also a member of the Committees on Accounts, 
Counties and Townships, Insurance and Railroads. He is a Republican and 
does not take much stock in reformers or independents. 




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TAMES PR I CHARD, of Blair County, 
J was born May 9, 1X49, in Chestertown, 
Kent County, Maryland. He resided 
there until he was fifteen years old with 
his parents, who found it advisable to leave 
at that time owing to the ugly war feel- 
ing which prevailed against Republicans. 
Mr. Prichard's father was an ardent Re- 
publican and had so aroused the indigna- 
tion of his neighbors by his fealty to the 
Union that he deemed it prudent to re- 
move to Philadelphia. In that city, after 
having received an ordinary school edu- 
cation, young Prichard learned the retail 
drug business, in which he was engaged 
nine years. He then went into the whole- 
sale drug business, and for a number of 
years represented prominent houses in 
New York and Philadelphia. The past twelve years he has been in the em- 
ploy of the well-known firm of Robert Shoemaker 6c Co., Fourth and Race 
streets, Philadelphia. Mr. Prichard has been connected with the drug busi- 
ness twenty-three years. For many years he had his headquarters in Phila- 
delphia but desiring a more central location became a resident, eight years 
ago, of Tyrone, Blair County, which he has made his permanent home. He 
has always been a staunch Republican and represented his party in Blair 
County twice in State Conventions. In 1894 ne was nominated for the Leg- 
islature after a hard fight, his principal opponent being ex-Speaker He wit, 
who has since died, and his other competitor ex-Representative Isenberg. 
Mr. Prichard was a member of the Committees on Railroads, Military, Coun- 
ties and Townships and Constitutional Reform, and also served on the Special 
Committee to investigate the management of the Norristowu and Werners- 
ville Hospitals. Although not disposed to discuss bills in the open House 
Mr. Prichard was very useful in committee and before voting on legislation 
always gave it clo^e inspection. 




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ARREN T. FOLLWEILER was 
born at Tamaqua, Schuylkill 
County, November 11, 1864, and was 
the youngest member of the House of 
Representatives of 1893. His ancestors 
figured prominently in the War of the 
Revolution. It was a relative of Mr. 
Follweiler who hauled the Liberty Bell 
from Philadelphia to Allentown in 1777, 
and part of the vehicle that carried the bell 
at that time is still in the possession of the 
Follweiler family. The subject of this 
sketch was educated in the public schools 
of the borough of Tamaqua, and when 
but a lad was appointed messenger for the 
Western Union Telegraph Company. He 
soon became an operator and went to 
New York city with the Western Union, 
on Broadway, where he gained the distinction of being the youngest tele- 
graph operator in their employ in the city. After leaving the Broadway 
office he was employed by the Philadelphia Press bureau in New York, and 
from there went to the Philadelphia office and worked for the Press until 
1S87. In 1 888 he went to Texas and subsequently to Jacksonville- to take a 
position on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad. After short 
service he returned to his native home, where he was employed in the train- 
master's office. He was elected for two terms on the Advisory Board of the 
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Relief Association. He was also elected 
one of the Borough Auditors, which office he held until elected to the session 
of the Legislature of 1893, receiving the largest majority ever given to any 
candidate in the district. In 1894 he was the only Democrat elected to the 
Legislature in Schuylkill County. In 1895 he served on the Committees on 
Bureau of Statistics, Iron and Coal, Appropriations, Insurance and Mines 
and Mining. 




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ELTON EBY, a popular, practical 
fanner of Paradise township, Lan- 
caster County, was born on October 16, 
[850, and partly represents the Second 
District of that county. He was raised 
011 the farm on which he now lives. 
Nearly all his life has been spent on this 
farm. At an early age he was sent to the 
district school for a few months each 
term. He assisted his father in growing- 
tobacco until eighteen years of age, when 
he was sent to the Union High School 
near his home. On the death of his father 
he took charge of the large farm ami be- 
gan Inlying and selling live stock, in 
which business he was remarkably suc- 
cessful, and established a good reputation 
as a business man. At the urgent solici- 
tation of his friends he was made Prison Inspector in 1887 and served for 
three years. It was while filling this position that he became well known as 
a man of sound judgment. Mr. Kby was first elected to the House in [890. 
He performed his duties so satisfactorily to his constituents that he was 
honored with re-election in [892. In 1X94 he was again nominated and 
elected by a very large majority. During his connection with the House 
he has made himself useful in all work to which he has been assigned. 
In 1895 Mr. Eby was chairman of the Committee on Accounts and also a 
member of the Committees on Agriculture, Pensions and Gratuities, Vice and 
Immorality and Ways and Means. Mr. Kby is an active Republican, and 
the three terms he has served as a member of the Legislature show the appre- 
ciation of his worth by the voters of his district. 




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JOSEPH W. BUCKW ALTER, who 
J represents Perry County in the House > 
was born in Wallace Township, Chester 
County, February 22, 1850. His father 
was of German and his mother of Scotch 
descent. In 1852 his family moved to 
Juniata Township, Perry County. He 
obtained his education in the common 
schools of his adopted township and in 
the Bloomfield and Landisburg Acade- 
mies. After he had completed his edu- 
cation he taught school five terms in the 
winter and devoted his time in the sum- 
mer to farming. For several years he 
kept a general store at Newport. Eleven 
years of his life were taken up as a com- 
mercial traveler, during which time he 
also supervised a farm which he owns in 
Miller Township, Perry County, where he now resides. He was Secretary 
of the School Board in his township until he was elected a member of the 
Legislature, when he resigned the position. He also served as Census 
Enumerator for two districts in his county. He has repeatedly represented 
the Republican Party in local conventions. His popularity was shown in 
1892 in the big run he made when a candidate for the Legislature. Perry 
County was very close politically, but he emerged from his contest with a ma- 
jority of 362, which greatly exceeded that obtained by any other man on the 
Republican ticket. In 1894 his majority was over 500. Mr. Buckwalter 
has not figured much in the discussions of the House, but he has attended 
faithfully to all his legislative duties. In 1895 he was a member of the Com- 
mittees on Agriculture, Appropriations, Accounts, Elections and Railroads. 





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GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, of Wash- 
ington County, is the oldest member 
of the House, and was born in Wash- 
ington County, Pa., November 13, 
1S19. He was liberally educated and 
endowed with strong mental powers, but 
he never showed taste for any of the pro- 
fessions, devoting himself exclusively to 
agriculture and politics. In legislation 
he ranked with the ablest men of his 
own and rival parties, and was recog- 
nized as capable to discharge any work 
in connection with committee duty in 
Congress and the Legislature. Mr. 
Lawrence was first elected to the Legis- 
lature in 1843. He was re-elected in 
1847, 1 858 and 1859. He served in the 
State Senate in 1S4S, 1849, 1850, 18-51, 
1861, 1862 and 1863 and with marked ability and great credit as Speaker of 
that body in 1863. He was elected a member of Congress in 1864, 1866 and 
[882. In 1873 he was one of the delegates-at-large to the convention which 
framed the present constitution. After remaining in private life for a 
number of years Mr. Lawrence again appeared as a member of the Legis- 
lature of the lower branch, in which he now takes a very active part. He 
conies from a family of statesmen, his father having served in the State 
Legislature and Congress and two of his uncles and two brothers having 
displayed marked ability as members of the State Legislature- His father, 
Joseph Lawrence, served six terms in the House and was Speaker of that 
body in 1822 and 1824 and State Treasurer in 1835. His father's two 
brothers, John and Samuel Lawrence, were elected to the House from 
Reaver County about 1820. William, a brother of the subject of this 
sketch, was elected to the House from Dauphin County in 1S59 and 
and i860. He served as Speaker during his last term. Samuel, another 
brother, was Warren County's Representative in the lower branch in i860. 
At the session of 1895 Mr. Lawrence was chairman of the House Congress- 
ional Apportionment Committee and a member of other important committees, 
including second member of the Ways and Means Committee. In response 
to many urgent requests Mr. Lawrence made one of the most entertaining 
speeches dedicating the new hall of the House ever delivered in that body. 
The characteristic of Mr. Lawrence in public life has been his tenacity in 
devotion to the Republican Party, never swerving from his zeal in supporting- 
its measures and men. Whatever he undertook to do he always did with 
ability and courage, acting fairly to his opponents, but losing no oppor- 
tunity to advance the interests of his party. He is a plain and convincing 
speaker, a ready debater and a valuable member. Wherever he is known he 
is regarded with great respect in business and social life. 



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HENRY S. FUNK, who, with his two 
colleagues, has the honor of repre- 
senting: the once reliably Democratic 
JB county of Bucks, was born December 23, 

/ 1844, on the old Funk homestead, in 

I ^ Springtown, where he lives in the house 

built over one hundred years ago by his 
grandfather, Henry Funk, who was a 
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 
1 808 and 1 809 . Representative Funk is of 
Revolutionary ancestry and is an honored 
descendant from one of the oldest and 
most extensively and favorably known 
families in Bucks County. He was 
educated in public and private schools 
until eighteen years old, when he assumed 
charge of his extensive saw and flouring 
mills, handle works and homestead farms, 
which remain under his personal supervision. He was Postmaster at Spring- 
town during President Garfield's administration and was re-appointed to the 
same position by President Harrison, serving until January 1, 1894. He 
has also been Justice of the Peace in that town. In 1885 Mr. Funk estab- 
lished the Springtown Times, and he has since been its editor and, in con- 
junction with his son, Henry H. Funk, the proprietor of the paper. Since 
the incorporation of the Globe Mutual Five Stock Insurance Company in 1887 
he has been its secretary. He is president of a building association in 
Springtown and interested in various other local enterprises. He is promi- 
nently identified with Republican politics in his county and has several 
times been a representative of his party in Republican State Conventions. 
He was nominated for the Legislature in 1894 and polled the highest vote of 
any of the Republican candidates for the House, securing a plurality of about 
1,500 in a county which has been accustomed to send Democrats to the Leg- 
islature. Mr. Funk readily availed himself of all opportunities to make 
himself useful as a member of the House, and the session had not progressed 
far before he was in possession of a thorough knowledge of the responsible 
duties of a legislator. He served with acceptability on the Committees on 
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S. SXIVKLY, of Franklin County, 
was born at Shady Grove, in the 
same county, June 15, 1S64. When old 
enough he entered the schools in his 
neighborhood and fitted himself for 
higher educational attainments. At 
twelve years of age he became a student 
in the Ursinus College, Montgomery 
County, and at seventeen, in 1881, grad- 
uated from that institution. After spend- 
ing a year and a half in Nodaway 
County, Missouri, in the mercantile busi- 
ness, he returned to his home and entered 
into partnership with his grandfather in 
a store. In 1886 he assumed the owner- 
ship of the store and in connection with 
it operated several farms in the vicinity. 
In 1894 he was honored with the nomi- 
nation as a candidate for member of the House and at the election in Novem- 
ber of that year was elected by one of the largest majorities ever given in 
Franklin County. In January 1895, he sold out his interest in his store in 
order that he might give his sole time to the performance of his legislative 
duties. Mr. Snively has been an active Republican since he attained his 
majority and has attended nearly every Republican County Convention the 
past nine years as a delegate from his district. At the session of 1895 he 
exhibited much interest in legislation for the improvement of public roads 
and the promotion of the interests of the farmers of the State. Among the 
bills he introduced was one prohibiting the manufacture of any article made 
wholly or partly of any fat, oil or oleaginous substance, not produced from 
unadulterated milk or cream, in imitation of yellow butter, but authorizing 
the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in such manner as to advise the 
consumer of its real character, free from coloration of any ingredients making 
it look butter. At the session of 1895 -Mr. Snively was a member of the 
Committees on Judiciary Local, Public Buildings and Grounds, Manufac- 
tures, Constitutional Reform and Accounts. All subjects in which he had 
a particular interest were concisely and intelligently discussed by him. Mr. 
Snively 's ancestors came from Switzerland and were among the first settlers 
in Antrim Township, Franklin County. 




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JOHN L. MATTOX, one of the 
Venango County members, was born 
near Sandy Lake, Mercer County, 
July 15, 1859. He is the son of a soldier 
who died in the Union Army and was 
buried at Arlington Heights, Virginia. 
He began his educational training in the 
Soldiers' Orphan School at Mercer, in 
which institution he remained five years 
and subsequently entered Westminster 
College at New Wilmington, Pa. He 
feels much indebted to Mr. R. R. Wright, 
of Mercer, who advanced him the neces- 
sary funds to complete his collegiate 
education. Mr. Mattox graduated from 
the college in 1883, afterward taught 
school near Oil City and for five years 
was principal of the schools of Pleasant- 
ville, Venango County, where he was married to the daughter of D. W. 
Henderson. He read law with ex-Senator Pee and ex-Representative Hays 
(who is now his law partner), and was admitted to the bar in [889. His 
school teaching days gave him a wide acquaintance and did him good 
service when he ran for the legislative nomination in 1892 and for election 
the same year. He was loyally supported by his own party (the Republi- 
cans ), received many Democratic votes and obtained an unusually large 
majority. At the session of 1893 he was on the sub-committee which 
inquired into the contested election cases instituted to unseat Representatives 
Baker, of Montgomery, and Cminuan, of Lackawanna. In 1844 he was 
re-nominated by his party and received a plurality of over 2,100. In 1895 
Mr. Mattox was chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Reform and 
was also a member of the Committees on Corporations, Insurance, Judiciary 
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1AM ES C. G R A HAM, of York County, 
was bora in Chance-ford Township, 
York County, August 22, 1845. Since 
he was old enough to work he has been 
engaged at farming and is living on a farm 
in the township of his birth. The only 
offices he ever held were those of Deputy 
Recorder under B. Frank Stroman, of 
York County, and Assessor in his town- 
ship. Colonel Robert Graham, father of 
Representative Graham, was a member of 
the House of Representatives of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1839 and 1840, when the Legisla- 
ture met every year. Mr. Graham is the 
successor of Representative Robinson and 
was elected by about 1,000 plurality de- 
spite the Republican cyclone which struck 
York County last fall. He has taken an 
active part in politics since he has had a vote, has frequently filled primary 
positions and contributed his share toward the success of the Democratic Party. 
His ancestors (of Scotch-Irish descent) were among the oldest settlers in the 
lower portion of York county, having located there about one hundred and 
twenty years ago. Mr. Graham served on the Committees on Public Health 
and Sanitation, Fish and Game, Vice and Immorality and Federal Relations 
and promptly and faithfully performed all his legislative duties. 





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/ r ARD R. BLISS was born in Lewis- 
burg, Union County, Pa., on De- 
cember 15, 1855, and is of New England 
descent. In 1S74 he graduated from the 
University at Lewisburg (now Bueknell 
University), in which his father was pro- 
fessor of Greek and Latin. The same 
year he removed to the city of Chester, 
Delaware County. He taught school 
while reading law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1878. Since 1881 he has pub- 
lished a weekly legal journal, of which 
five volumes have been published in book 
form under the title of ' ' The Delaware 
County Reports." He has also pub- 
lished a " Digest of the Local Laws 
of Delaware County . ' ' From 1882 to 1 89 1 
he edited and published the Delaware 
County Republican, the oldest newspaper in the county. In 1887 he was 
chairman of the Republican County Committee and in 1888 he was elected 
for the first time to the Legislature. He was re-elected in 1890, 1892 
and 1894, at his last election receiving a plurality of over 5,300. He was 
chairman of the Committee on Judiciary Local and was on the Committees on 
Municipal Corporations, Corporations and Appropriations. During the last 
three sessions his efforts in the Legislature have been devoted chiefly to the 
passage of a new quarantine bill for the port of Philadelphia, to secure better 
protection to the people of the State, and to compel the removal of the 
present Lazaretto out of Delaware County, where it has become a serious 
menace to the health of the people. This was accomplished in 1893 by the 
passage of a new quarantine law. Mr. Bliss was one of the most active mem- 
bers at the session of 1895. 



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WALTER T. MERRICK, of Tioga 
County, Hum whom there is no 
more popular and intelligent member of 
the House of Representatives, is a 
native of Charleston Township, Tioga 
County, Pa. He was born June 12, 
[859, and was educated in the Mansfield 
State Normal School and the Elmira 
Free Academy. He studied law with 
Hon. Charles H. Seymour, of Tioga, 
and with the successful firm of Merrick & 
Young, at Wellsboro. He was admitted 
to the bar of Tioga County in 1SS6, and 
immediately began the practice of his 
profession in Blossburg, the mining 
centre of Tioga county, where he still 
resides. Mr. Merrick takes a prominent 
part in politics and is one of the Repub- 
lican leaders in Tioga County. He was elected to the Legislature for the 
first time in [892, running ahead of the whole Republican ticket. Lie is 
especially popular among the younger element of his party, which accounts 
for his large majority. In 1S94 he was re-elected by a plurality of over 
4,400 and in 1 S95 was a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Corpor- 
ations, Education, Congressional Apportionment and Agriculture. Besides 
taking an active part in debates on the floor of the House he has been one 
of the foremost members of the committees of which he is a member. He is 
an earnest and logical talker, and is always listened with interest by his col- 
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A. MAPEL, who represents Greene 
• County in the House, was born in 
Wayne Township, Greene County, De- 
cember 6, 1849. His early years were 
devoted to farming and attending the 
public schools, after which, in 186S, he 
entered the high school of his native 
county, followed by a two years' course 
in the Waynesburg College. For eighteen 
years he taught school in the winter and 
farmed in the summer mouths and 
has been awarded a permanent State 
teacher's certificate by the Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction. Mr. Mapel 
is living on his own farm and gives 
his particular attention to the business 
of breeding and raising fine stock. 
He was instrumental in organizing the 
Waynesburg Fair Association and is its president. He has been elected to 
several local positions in his township, and in November, 1894, was chosen 
member of the House by 1,087 plurality, notwithstanding the Republican 
tornado which swept over the State and country. At the late session of the 
Legislature he served on the Committees on Public Health and Sanitation, 
Vice and Immorality, Labor and Industry and Geological Survey. While 
Mr. Mapel was not conspicuous as a talker on the floor of the House, he 
closely and intelligently attended to his legislative duties. In committee 
work he made himself particularly useful. 




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JACOB B. HERZOG, representing the 
| Second District of Berks County, 
was born in Rockland Township, 
Berks County, February 10, i860. He 
was educated in the public schools of his 
native township and in the Oley Acad- 
emy. He worked on a farm, taught 
school for seventeen successive terms in 
the townships of Ruscombmanor and 
Oley, served as organist at various 
churches for nine years, and is by trade a 
painter. He served as chairman of the 
Democratic club of Oley, was delegate to 
various County and State Conventions and 
w T as appointed secretary of the Standing 
Committee of Berks County by Chairman 
Herbst in the fall of 1890, and in that 
campaign did excellent service for the 
Democracy, the county giving a majority of 8,901 for Pattison, the largest 
in its history. He held this position for three years. He was nominated 
for the Legislature on the first ballot over eight competitors and elected 
by a majority of 7,554 votes. In 1894 ne was re-elected by a good majority, 
considering the Republican landslide. In 1895 he was a member of the 
Committees on Agriculture, Ways and Means, Education, Library and 
Public Buildings and performed his duties with an eye single to the public 
welfare. The interests of the Democratic Party, of which he is an ardent 
member, have always been safe in his hands in the House. Mr. Herzog 
made one of the ablest speeches delivered in 1895 against the Compulsory 
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C. SMITH is a native of Bedford 
Borough. He was admitted to 
practice at the bar in i S70. In 1881 he 
helped to found the Bedford Republican, 
which was consolidated with the Bedford 
Inquirer in 1884. In 1886 he retired 
from the newspaper business and in 1889 
purchased the Everett Press and a few 
months afterward purchased the Everett 
Leader and consolidated the two papers. 
He is still senior editor and publisher of 
the Everett Press. In 1892 he was elected 
as a colleague of Hon. John Cessna to 
represent Bedford County in the House 
of Representatives. He served on a 
number of important committees and 
took an active part in the proceedings 
for a new member. In 1S94 he was 
re-elected by a largely increased majority. He was appointed on Commit- 
tees on Appropriations, Judiciary Local, Insurance, Accounts and Library, 
the latter of which he was chairman. 




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THOMAS HENRY GARVIN, one of 
the Delaware County members of the 
House, was born in Philadelphia, October 
23, 1857. While in that city he attended 
the public schools and a business college. 
At the age of sixteen his family removed 
to Sharon Hill, Delaware County, where 
he has resided ever since. The elder Gar- 
vin and his son are partners in the retail 
coal business in Philadelphia, and the latter 
is also in the real estate business in Dela- 
ware Comity. He is one of the incorpo- 
rators and general manager of the Sharon 
Hill Real Estate Company. He has 
served in the Councils of his borough 
and also been twice elected Burgess of 
the place, filling the position in 1891 and 
1S92. He was nominated in 1892 to the 
Legislature after a spirited contest and elected by a large majority and in 
1894 obtained about 5,300 plurality as a candidate for re-election. At the 
session of 1895 he was on the Committees on Railroads, Fish and Game, 
Insurance and Compare Bills. Mr. Garvin has established a reputation for 
attentive and intelligent work in committee, and few members have a tighter 
hold on the friendship of their fellow legislators. 







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Q S. PAGE was born July 24, 1856, 
O. in Paxtang Township, Dauphin, 
County Pa., and elected to the Legis- 
lature in 1892 and 1894. 



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KRMAX H. NORTH is one of the 
well-known attorneys of MeKean 
County, who has gained for himself an 
enviable reputation . He was born in 
Patterson, Juniata County, Pa., 1852, 
and is the son of Hon. James North, 
who continues to reside in Juniata 
County. He was given a liberal educa- 
tion, having successfully attended Airy 
View Academy, at Port Royal, Pa., and 
Chambersburg Academy, Pa., from which 
latter institution he entered the College 
of New Jersey, at Princeton, graduating 
in 1873- Subsequently he entered the 
Albany Law School, Albany, N. Y., and 
after a full course, graduated in 1875. 
In 1875 Mr. North located at Indian- 
apolis, Ind., entering the office of 
McDonald & Butler, one of the foremost law firms of that State, the 
senior member of the firm, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, being at the time 
United States Senator. Owing to the climate Mr. North was unable to re- 
main in Indianapolis and returned the following year to Pennsylvania. For 
a number of years his health was so poor that he was incapacitated for office 
business and in 1880 removed to Bradford, MeKean County, where he 
became extensively engaged in the oil industry and in the course of three or 
four years regained his health and commenced the practice of his profession. 
He has been identified with many of the most prominent litigations in the 
county and enjoys the confidence of all who know him. Mr. North has 
always taken considerable interest in politics, having served as committee- 
man in his native county of Juniata ; also as a member of the Republican 
State Committee in 1878, and for a number of years as a member and 
secretary of the City Republican Committee of Bradford. He was elected 
chairman of the Republican County Committee of MeKean County in 1S90 
and 1 89 1, and managed the campaigns of those years in a highly satisfactory 
manner. At the meeting of the Republican County Convention of MeKean 
County in July, 1892, Mr. North was unanimously chosen one of the candi- 
dates of his party for member of Assembly and was elected the following 
November by a handsome majority, and was re-elected in 1894 by a largely 
increased majority. In 1891 Mr. North was elected City Solicitor of the 
city of Bradford, and served as such until January, 1893, when he resigned 
to assume the office of Representative in the State Legislature. During the 
sessions of the Legislature of 1893 and 1895 Mr. North took an active and 
prominent part in the most interesting discussions before the House, and 
was chairman of the Judicial Apportionment Committee. He is a man of 
positive convictions, and, although having expressed himself to a degree of 
defiance, he neither merited nor received the ill will of any of his fellow 
members, but on the contrary won for himself their friendship and esteem. 



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JOHN BEANS GOENTNER was born 
J in Lancaster County, June 27, 1847, 
his parents soon after returning to the 
old homestead farm near Hatboro, Mont- 
gomery County, where his ancestors 
have lived over one hundred years and 
where his mother still resides. He was 
raised on the farm and educated at the 
public schools and in old Loller Acad- 
emy. From the age of fifteen to twenty 
two he worked on his father's farm. He 
then taught school successfully in Chel- 
tenham, Horsham and White Marsh 
Townships for several years. He has 
always been actively interested in the 
advancement of literature. While teach- 
ing he organized a successful lyceum in 
each, of the schools. In 187S he mar- 
ried, purchased a farm and moved to " Willow Brook," in Abington Town- 
ship, where he still resides. He has always taken an active part in politics, 
having been a delegate to a County Convention before he cast his first vote. 
He was delegate to the State Republican League at Scranton in 1891 and 
alternate from the Seventh Congressional District to the National Repub- 
lican League Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., in September, 1S92. He was 
School Director and Justice of the Peace a number of years, which latter 
position he resigned on his election to the Legislature. He was defeated 
for the Legislature in 1890 by only eight votes, while the county went 
generally Democratic by 1,000, elected in 1892 and re-elected in 1894. While 
teaching he spent part of his vacation traveling through the western States 
and Territories and came back and settled in Montgomery County, which 
he says is the " garden of the world," and his own district the flower-bed 
of the garden. At the session of 1895 he was a member of the Committees 
on Education, Public Health and Sanitation, Geological Survey, Fish and 
Game and Legislative Apportionment. 




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M. LYTLE was first elected to rep- 
resent Huntingdon County in the 
Legislature in 1888, and has been twice 
re-elected. He had not been a politician 
and had never been a candidate for office 
prior to his election as a Representative. 
He was given, however, a larger vote by 
the people of his county at his three suc- 
cessive elections than was received by 
the Republican State or National ticket 
in the same year. Mr. Lytle was born 
February 6, 1840, in Franklin Town- 
ship, Huntingdon County. His father, 
Nathaniel Lytle, was the son of William 
Lytle, a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War, and was for many years a promi- 
nent and influential citizen of the county. 
P. M. Lytle spent his early years in the 
public school and at the academy at Juniata County, then under the manage- 
ment of that well known and excellent instructor. Professor I. H. Shumaker. 
At about the age of seventeen years he began school teaching, and soon 
afterward took up the study of the law, pursuing that study and teaching at 
the same time. He was admitted to the bar at Huntingdon, August n, 
1S62, and has since with but short intervals devoted himself to the practice. 
During the latter part of the war he filled an important position in the 
Department of United States Military Railroads at Chattanooga, Tenn. He 
has taken an active part in the proceedings of the House, and his worth has 
been recognized by his appointment as a member of several of the most 
important committees. Legislation has received the attention and consider- 
ation from Mr. Lytle which its importance has demanded. As a debater, he 
has well earned the distinction he enjoys among his fellow members of the 
House. In 1894 he was elected for the fourth time by a plurality of about 
2,000. At the session of 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on 
Railroads, a member of the Committee on Rules and of several important 
standing Committees. 




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DANIEL J. REESE, of the Third 
District Luzerne, was born Decem- 
ber 7, 1859, at Mountain Ash, South 
Wales. He came to this country when 
very . young and was educated in the 
public schools of the comities of Schuyl- 
kill, Carbon and Luzerne. He also at- 
tended the Wyoming Seminary during a 
portion of the years 1877 and 1878. For 
many years he has been employed in and 
about a coal mine, advancing from the 
position of a slate picker in the breaker 
to an expert miner. He has filled the 
offices of Register, Assessor of Plymouth 
Borough , and has served several times on 
the Election Board in the district in 
which he resides. For two years he was 
a member of the Luzerne County Re- 



publican Committee. In 1892 he was elected to the Legislature, and was a 
member of the House Committees on Elections, Legislative Apportionment, 
Mines and Mining and Labor and Industry in 1893 and 1895. He took an 
active interest in legislation, especially that pertaining to the section he 
represents and the laboring man. Mr. Reese introduced a number of bills 
in the interests of workingmen. In 1894 he was elected by about 1,300 
plurality. For seventeen years he has been closely allied with labor unions, 
and during all this time he has been faithful in all his official acts. Mr. 
Reese has written a number of very beautiful poems which have been widely 
published. He is an intelligent, faithful and conscientious legislator and a 
credit to his constituents. 



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GEORGE A. VARE, of Philadelphia, 
for three sessions has represented the 
First Ward in the lower House. He had 
the distinction in 1893 of being one of the 
youngest members ever sent to the Legis- 
lature from Philadelphia. He was born 
in the old historic district of Southwark 
on February 7, 1859, but subsequently 
took up his residence in the First Ward, 
where he began to take an active interest 
in politics from the time he cast his first 
vote. Mr. Vare's education was obtained 
in the public schools. His family has 
long been identified with public contracts 
in Philadelphia, and he and his 
brothers have for several years been 
the successful contractors for the clean- 
ing of the streets, the contracts running 
into the hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. He has been a member of 
the Republican Ward Committee for a number of years, and is also an active 
spirit in the Union Republican Club of his ward, which is known as one of 
the political institutions of down town. Mr. Vare has been selected as a 
candidate for the Legislature solely by reason of his popularity with the 
young men, he being a concession partially to that element and for the 
political strength he represents. Mr. Vare has served his party as a dele- 
gate to city and ward conventions, has been a liberal contributor to the 
finances, and has never held a Federal place, although he has been in a 
position to command it. He has been a delegate to Republican State Con- 
vention for the past six years. In 1894 he was re-elected by a plurality of 
3,300. He served on the Committees on Bureau of Statistics, Legislative 
Apportionment, Municipal Corporations and Retrenchment and Reform. 




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ADOLPH BEYERLEIN, Jr., has rep- 
resented for three terms the First 
District of Philadelphia in the House. 
This district comprises the First Ward 
and is one of the most populous in that 
city. He was born in the Quaker City 
July 1 6, 1856, of German parentage. 
Throughout his youth he attended the 
public schools, going through several of 
the grades. He adopted the business of 
a milk dealer as his life's vocation and 
has succeeded in building up one of the 
largest businesses in that line in the 
southern section of the city. Mr. Bever- 
lein is not a " talking member " of the 
Legislature, but is regular in his attend- 
ance upon the sessions of the House and 
his committee assignments. He has long 
been active in the Republican politics of the First Ward and was chosen by 
his leader as a candidate for the Legislature for the reason of his popularity 
and his claim for active service upon the party. The competition for place 
in so large a ward as the First is naturally fierce and it is a great compliment 
to Mr. Beyerlein that he should have been chosen by the party leaders three 
times to fill a place on the legislative ticket. He is an active member of the 
Union Republican Club of the First Ward. His popularity among the 
younger element of his party is somewhat remarkable, as his vote on both 
occasions, both in nominating conventions and at the polls, has attested. 
He is a leading member of the Milk Exchange of Philadelphia. In 1894 he 
had over 3,300 plurality. At the session of 1895 he served on the Com- 
mittees on Public Health and Sanitation, Corporations, Manufactures, Elec- 
tions and Centennial Affairs. 




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HOWARD COX KADI':, who re- 
presents the Second District of 
Philadelphia in the House, was born in 
that city, February 6, [868. He was 
educated in the public schools and also 
had the benefit of private tuition. Mr. 
Con rude is a successful lawyer, the result 
of close application to his studies while 
attending the law department of the 
University of Pennsylvania. After hav- 
ing been in that institution three years 
he in 1889 graduated with the degree of 
Bachelor of Law. Since then he has 
been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. He belongs to what is known 
as "The Pennsylvania Democracy," and 
at the election in November, 1*94, he 
received the support of that party and 
the Republicans, who made no nomination against him. In a vote of 
about 4,300 he was successful by a majority of 462 over John Henderson, the 
regular Democratic nominee. Mr. Conrade is the successor of Representa- 
tive Ransley, Republican, who was chosen a member of the House in 
1893 because of factional division in the Second District. At the session of 
1895 Mr. Conrade was a member of the Committees on Passenger Railways, 
Judiciary Local, Manufactures and Geological Survey. While cne of the 
youngest members of that body he reflected credit on the district he repre- 
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/'ASCAR P. SAUNDERS, who repre- 
V / sents the Third District of Philadel- 
phia, was born in November, 1848, in 
that city. He was given a common 
school education, supplemented by a 
course of study in St. Joseph's College, 
from which he graduated. He has been 
School Director in the Third Sectional 
Board of Philadelphia for eight and was 
President of the Board for six years. He 
has been an active Democratic politician 
in his ward for twenty-five years and filled 
the position of chairman of his Ward 
Committee for many years. He was nomi- 
nated for member of the House by "The 
Pennsylvania Democracy " and also had 
the endorsement of the Republican Party 
of his district. As the Republicans had 
no candidate in the field the fight was a square one between " The Pennsyl- 
vania Democracy" and what was known as the "Regulars," which the 
former maintained was a misnomer. The result of the contest was his 
election by a majority of 441. Mr. Saunders was a member of the 
Committees on Judicial Apportionment, Pensions and Gratuities, Centen- 
nial Affairs and Federal Relations. On all clearly defined political 
questions he acted with the Democratic Party during the session. He was 
not interested in any particular legislation but kept himself well informed on 
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k AVID SINGER, of the Fourth Leg- 
islative District, Philadelphia, was 
born in Germany. August 29, 1858. He 
was educated in German schools and left 
his native country for America at the 
conclusion of his preparatory course for 
the University. He is the proprietor ol 
a hotel in Philadelphia and has never 
held a political office until qualified as a 
member of the House of Representatives 
of Pennsylvania. He is a Democrat but 
was supported by the Republicans of his 
district as a member of the Pennsylvania 
Democracy and was elected by a large 
majority. At the last session of the 
Legislature he voted with the Democrats 
on political questions. He served on the 
Committees on Banks, Corporations, 
Military and Congressional Apportionment. 




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/TLXIAM REEVES, who represents 
the Fifth District of Philadelphia, 
was born in that city, May 24, 1845. He 
attended the public schools of Philadel- 
phia and has uninterruptedly resided 
there. About the time he attained his 
majority he was engineer at the pumps 
on Smith's Island and had general charge 
of the famous resort. After holding this 
position until 1875 he became connected 
with the Philadelphia Police Department 
by appointment as special officer of the 
Third District. In 1884 he surrendered 
the place to embark in the restaurant 
business in the Fifth Ward. In 1888 he 
abandoned it to accept a position in the 
custom house as night inspector, which 
position he held two years. Subse- 
quently he became writ server under Sheriff Connell and continued in office 
until the expiration of the sheriffs term of three years. On his retirement 
Mr. Reeves started a cigar store at the corner of Third and Pine streets, 
Philadelphia. At the election in 1894 he was chosen over his opponent by 
a majority of about 1,700 in a vote of a little over 3,100, receiving nearly 
four times as many votes as the Democratic candidate for the House. 
Mr. Reeves served on the Committees on Judicial Apportionment, Pensions 
and Gratuities, Library, Public Buildings and Compare Bills. He was one 
of the most attentive members in the House and in his quiet way performed 
his official duties. 




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JOHN CRUISE, of the Sixth District, 
J was born in Philadelphia March 4, 
1855. He was educated in the public 
schools in that city. In 1 N74 he obtained 
a position in a lumber yard and has since 
been engaged in that business. He was 
elected a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives November, 1891, to fill the 
unexpired term of James Franklin, re- 
signed. He was re-elected for the full term 
November, 1892, and again re-elected in 
[894, receiving a plurality of over 2,500. 
He served on the Committees on Banks, 
Counties and Townships, Judicial Ap- 
portionment, Municipal Corporations and 
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SAMUEL SALTER, the successor of 
ex-Speaker Boyer, of the Seventh 
District, Philadelphia, was born in that 
city January 13, 1846. He was educated 
in the public schools of Philadelphia, and 
his occupation is house painter. After 
having worked on a farm in New Jersey 
over a year he enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry, November 26, 1862. He 
was discharged from the service Septem- 
ber 29, 1863, and re-enlisted in Company 
C, Twentieth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
February 27, 1864. In July 16, 1865, 
he was mustered out the second time. 
On his return from the army he filled the 
position of sampler and packer in the 
appraisers' store, Philadelphia, five years, 
most of the time under the administration of President Arthur, and was 
fireman of the Senate at the sessions of 1887 and 1889. In 1890 he was 
elected a member of the House of 1 89 1 . He is a member of the Union Repub- 
lican Club at Seventh and Chestnut streets and of the Senate Republican 
Club of the Seventh Ward and has been an active worker in his party's 
ranks for twenty years. In 1894 he was chosen to represent his district in 
the House by a majority of nearly 3,800, having received nearly four times 
as many votes as his Democratic opponent. At the session of 1895 he was 
a member of the Committees on Corporations, Municipal Corporations and 
Retrenchment and Reform, among others. Mr. Salter puts on no frills and 
quietly performs his duties as a legislator. 




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IOHN M. SCOTT, of Philadelphia, was 
born in that city on September [9, 
1858. The first of his ancestors to 
emigrate to this country was the third son 
of John Scott, of Ancrum, county of Rox- 
burg, Scotland, who reached here about 
1700, and received the rights of citizen- 
ship of the city of New York in 1702. He 
was afterward the commandant of Fort 
Hunter, on the river Mohawk, in the pres- 
ent county of Schoharie. The eldest of 
his children was also named John Scott 
and died in 1733, leaving one child, John 
Morin Scott, an eloquent and able lawyer 
of New York. He was a member of the 
old Congress of the United States, a 
brigadier general of the New York 
State militia, in the service of the United 
States, and Secretary of State of New York. General Scott died in 1784, and 
was succeeded in his post of Secretary, and in his profession, by his only soil) 
Lewis Allaire Scott, of New York, who in turn became the parent of John 
Morin Scott, of Philadelphia. This John Morin Scott was also a lawyer. 
He was elected in 18 15 to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 
where he served two or more terms, and was again elected to that body in 
1836. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of this State 
of 1.S37 and took an active part in the debates of that body. In 1841 he was 
elected Mayor of the city of Philadelphia and was twice re-elected, holding 
the office for three years. The eldest son of Mayor Scott was Lewis Allaire 
Scott, who was also a lawyer by profession, and is still living. The subject 
of this sketch is the eldest child of the last mentioned Lewis Allaire Scott, 
and his wife, Fannie W., daughter of Richard Wistai, of Philadelphia, whose 
family was also among the early settlers of this country. He received a care- 
ful education, studied law and was admitted to practice in Philadelphia on 
November 12, 1881, since which time he has diligently pursued his profession 
and has acquired considerable practice. Mr. Scott has served two terms as a 
member of the Eighth Sectional School Board and was elected to the House 
from the Eighth District of Philadelphia in 1886 and re-elected in 188S. 
After devoting two years to the practice of the law exclusively he was elected 
to the Legislature again in 1892 and re-elected for a fourth term in 1894, the 
latter year receiving nearly 2,500 majority. He was a member of the Judiciary 
General, Ways and Means and other Committees of the House. He was 
married in December of 1888 to Miss Anna F. Barker, of Philadelphia, a 
descendant of the well-known Wharton family of that city. He is a life mem- 
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pOURTLANDT K. BOWLES, Reple- 
vy sentative of the Ninth Philadelphia 
District, was born in Portland, Me., on 
May 9, 1865. His father is the Rev. E. 
C. Bolles, D. D. , of New York City, who 
is of New England ancestry. The son 
graduated from Tufts College, Massachu- 
setts, and in 1891, from the law depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania 
as an LL. B. While a University stu- 
dent he also studied law in the office of 
Biddle & Ward, the head of which firm 
is George W. Biddle. Mr. Bolles has 
practiced his profession ever since grad- 
uating, but had previously begun jour- 
nalistic work, at which he spent about 
a year, first on New England news- 
papers and afterward on the Philadelphia 
Inquirer. He never held any public office until elected to the House of 
Representatives in November, 1S92. He is in his fourth year as treasurer 
of the Ninth Ward Republican Executive Committee and is a member of the 
Union Republican Club. As an alternate delegate from the Second Con- 
gressional District in the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, 
in 1S92, he was ardently for Blaine until the latter's nomination was clea / 
impossible. Mr. Bolles has frequently been a delegate in city nominating 
conventions, latterly as chairman of his ward delegations. He is very active 
and prominent in the Zeta Psi Fraternity, having been a member of several 
grand chapters of the society. He is also a member of the University Club 
of Philadelphia. At the session of 1895 he was secretary of the Judiciary 
General Committee of the House and a member of the Military, Accounts, 
Public Buildings and Judiciary Apportionment Committees. He was a mem- 
ber of the House of the sessions of 1893 and 1895. In 1894 he was re-elected 
by the largest majority ever given a legislative candidate in his district. 
The success of the movement for the establishment of the Naval Militia of 
the State, in which Mr. Bolles is the Senior Lieutenant, is largely due to his 
efforts and he has labored assiduously for the promotion of legislation in 
the interest of this new and popular branch of the National Guai'd. 




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71IXIAM H. BEAM, one of the 
Representatives from the Tenth I dis- 
trict, Philadelphia, in the House, was 
born in Philadelphia, June 13, 1857. He 
quit school before he was twelve years 
old. At that early age he became an 
errand boy in a notion house in Bank 
street, Philadelphia, and soon learned 
the tin and sheet iron business on Front 
street, remaining with his firm about two 
years, after which he was employed by 
Chas. Burnham & Co., in whose service 
he remained twelve years He then ac- 
cepted the appointment of clerk in the 
office of Recorder of Deeds under George 
G. Pierie and served from 1885 to 1890. 
In [889 he was elected a member of the 
House to fill the unexpired term of 
Augustus S. Roberts, of the Tenth District. As the Legislature did not 
meet in 1890 Mr. Beam performed no legislaiive duties. In February ol 
that year he was appointed a clerk in the office of Register of Wills, and 
the following September resigned his position to accept that of Deputy De- 
linquent Tax Collector under the late Captain John Taylor, who was then 
Receiver of Taxes. O.i the 31st of December, 1894, Mr. Beam resigne:! this 
office because of his election as member of the House. He was chosen 
under peculiar circumstances. William R. Leeds, who had for years repre- 
sented the Tenth District, died the day before the election, after he had re- 
ceived the nomination of his party. Mr. Beam was nominated the day of 
Mr. Leeds' death. Notwithstanding he was handicapped by the short time 
allowed him to canvass his district he was elected by over 2,200 majority, 
carrying the Sixth ward, which is usually Democratic, by the largest majority 
ever received by a Republican in the ward. Mr. Beam is president of the 
Sixth Ward Executive Committee and the Sixth Ward Republican Club. 
About 1878 he joined the National Guard and served three years as member 
of Company D, Second Regiment, resigning as second lieutenant At the 
session of the Legislature of 1895 he was a member of the Committees on 
Insurance, Printing, Federal Relations and Accounts. He showed the 
same fitness as a member of the House that he did in the other positions of 
responsibility he has held. 



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HENRY GRANSBACK, who rep- 
resents the Eleventh District of 
Philadelphia, was born in that city Janu- 
ary 17, [836. At thirteen years of age 
his school days ended, and he began to 
learn the moulding trade. After passing 
five years as an apprentice he worked at 
the trade as a journeyman for over twelve 
vears. He then went into the foundry 
business, with which he was connected 
ten years, and subsequently was a dealer 
in scrap iron, which occupation he fol- 
lowed until recently. Mr. Gransback 
has given the Republican Party his unfal- 
tering support and has been identified 
with politics in his ward for many years. 
He was appointed Assistant Revenue 
Assessor under the second administration 
of President Lincoln but was compelled to give way to a Democrat when 
Andrew Johnson became President. His first vote was cast for Abraham 
Lincoln. He secured bis nomination for the Legislature without any 
trouble and was the first Republican candidate for the Legislature elected 
from the Eleventh Ward. His majority was SSi and his vote almost three 
times as large as that of his Democratic opponent. Representative Crawford, 
who had been a member of the House from this district repeatedly, was a 
candidate on the Democratic ticket until he realized the hopelessness of the 
contest, when he withdrew his nomination papers filed in the office of the 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. Mr. Gransback served on the Committees 
on Public Buildings, Insurance, Counties and Townships and Labor and 
Industry. 




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WILLIAM T. ZEHNDER, who re- 
presents the Twelfth District of 
Philadelphia, was born in that city, 
October 5, 1S67. The Zehnders are 
among the oldest and most respected 
families in Philadelphia. Representative 
Zehnder received his education in the 
common schools of that city. Seven 
years of his youthful life were spent in 
the employ of A. J. Reach Co., dealers 
in base ball and other sporting goods. 
Six years he had for his employers John 
F. Betz & Sons, the well-known brewing 
firm. He was twice an Assessor in the 
Twelfth Ward and is a member of the 
Ward Executive Committee of his ward. 
At the election in November, 1894, Mr. 
Zehnder defeated his opponent by a 
majority of 686, receiving almost twice as many votes as the Democratic 
candidate. He is the successor of Harry Coffin, who was also a Republican. 
Mr. Zehnder was a member of the Committees on Vice and Immorality, 
Municipal Corporations, Judicial Apportionment and Pensions and Gratuities. 
While he had no previous legislative experience he sized up to his duties in 
the most satisfactory manner, both in committees and on the floor of the 
House. 




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THOMAS DUNLAP, of Phila- 
delphia, is a native of Bucks 
County, having been born at Kintners 
ville, March 29, 1852, and in 1872 he 
moved to Philadelphia. His father was 
a tailor. Mr. Dunlap attended the public 
schools of his native village until his 
thirteenth year. At that time the school 
term was but five months of the 
year. The poverty of his parents com- 
pelled him even at that tender age to 
seek his own livelihood. He obtained 
employment as a canal boy on the Lehigh 
and Delaware canal, which occupation, 
with its hardships and vicissitudes, he 
followed sturdily until his seventeenth 
year. It was then determined that he 
should have a trade and he was accord- 
ingly apprenticed to a local carpenter, which apprenticeship he faithfully 
served. Mr. Dunlap took a course of two years of instruction in the city of 
Philadelphia under the direction of the great builder, Richard J. Dobbins, 
recently deceased. He continued as a trusted employee of Mr. Dobbins for 
ten years, when he embarked in the carpentering business. For fifteen years 
or more Mr. Dunlap has actively participated in political affairs. He has 
always been a Republican and made his influence felt in his party in the 
Thirteenth Ward of Philadelphia. Under the administration of President 
Harrison he was tendered the responsible position of United States store 
keeper in the Internal Revenue Department, which position he held for two 
years and a half. While still in that employ he was unanimously nominated 
as a candidate for the Legislature in his district in the fall of 1892. The 
vote by which he was elected was a flattering tribute to the esteem in which 
he was held and of his popularity. While the presidential electors received 
a majority of 632, that of Mr. Dunlap reached 862. In 1894 he had over 
1,700 majority. In 1895 he served on the Committees on Railroads, 
Public Health and Sanitation and other Committees. Mr. Dunlap is 
the architect of his own fortune, fighting his way up from a poor country 
lad, thrown upon his own resources at thirteen, to a position of independence, 
honor and influence in the metropolis of his native State. 



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TTflLLIAM M. KIDD has been one 
\ V of the fixtures of the Philadelphia 
delegation in the House since 1885. He 
is a native Quaker Cityite, his birth 
dating back to March 27, 1839. Since 
1885 he has continuously represented the 
Fourteenth Ward , his nominations coming 
to him without friction or factional dis- 
pute. Standing thus in high esteem with 
the voters of his district, while other can- 
didates of the regular Republican organ- 
ization have gone down with the angry 
tidal waves of reform that have swept 
periodically over the city during his 
active identification with a political 
career, he has stood like a rock on a 
storm-beaten coast. Mr. Kidd is an 
excellent product of the public school 
system of Pennsylvania, being a graduate of the Hancock Grammar School 
of Philadelphia. For many years he was an active member of the volunteer 
fire department of the city and enjoyed in it a popularity that has lasted him 
unto this day. He is now one of the leading spirits of the Survivors' Asso- 
ciation of the old department. Since the organization of the latter he has 
participated as an officer in all the parades and its excursions to other cities. 
For some time he was attached to the Philadelphia custom house. At the 
session of the Legislature of 1889 he was chairman of the Committee on Cen- 
tennial Affairs of the House, and it was largely through his executive ability 
and his mastery of details that made the trip of the Legislature to the Con- 
stitutional Centennial in New York City the great success that it was. Mr. 
Kidd is engaged in the business of photography and has a flourishing estab- 
lishment at Atlantic City. He is admired and beloved for the social side of 
his nature, being a boon companion, straightforward, rigid in his honesty 
and unflinching in his friendship. To his friends he is known as " Captain " 
Kidd, a title that he wears with modesty and equipoise. 






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eral, in whose deliberations he 
a member of the session of 189 
over 3,400 plurality. 



UfALTONPENNEWILX.whoisserv- 
\ V ing his second term in the House of 
Representatives from the Fifteenth Phila- 
delphia District, comprising the Fifteenth 
Ward, is a native Philadelphian, where he 
was born February 15, 186 1 . Mr. Penne- 
will acquired his education in the schools 
of his native city, completing the entire 
course in the public schools, and gradu- 
ating from the Central High School in 
1S7S. He then entered the Law Depart- 
ment University of Pennsylvania, of which 
institution he was a graduate of the class 
of 1 88 1. For an additional year he pur- 
sued the study of law. and was admitted 
to the Philadelphia bar in 1882. Among 
the Committees on which he served at the 
session of 1895 was that of Judiciary Gen- 
took a prominent part. Mr. Pennewill was 
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OHN B. DeVELIN, one of the 
members from the Fifteenth District 
Philadelphia, was born in Mount ville, 
Lancaster County, March 15, 1845. He 
attended the public schools at West 
Hempfitld six months a year, and when 
he was old enough he spent the other 
six months of the year in his father's 
store until he left school, after which 
he devoted all his time to his clerical 
duties until 1868. In that year he went 
to Lancaster and entered the newspaper 
business, acting as clerk and business 
manager of the Lancaster Inquirer until 
1875. In the following year he engaged 
with the Carriage Monthly, the organ of 
the wagon builders and carriage manu- 
facturers, which was published in Phila- 
delphia, taking up his residence in the Quaker City to be near his new 
occupation, and for several years lie acted as business manager of this journal 
until he went into the paper business with the late J. G. Ditnian. This is 
Mr. DeVelin's second term as a member of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives. He never held public office before, but in his short term 
as a servant of the people he has given evidence of a thorough acquaintance 
with public matters. He is quick at grasping the subject under discussion 
and unhesitatingly enters a debate and supports his position with clear and 
concise arguments which command the attention of his fellow members 
whether favorable or opposed to the views he advances. He is a member 
of the Committees on Education, Federal Relations, Insurance, Municipal 
Corporations and Legislative Apportionment. Mr. DeVelin is a prominent 
member of the Order of American Mechanics, being a Past Councillor, and 
held the position of Deputy State Councillor for several years. He is also a 
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flLLIAM FRANCIS STEWART, 

the senior member of the Philadel- 
phia delegation, is a native of Williams 
port, Lycoming County, having been 
born in that city August 5, 1843. Hi s 
parents lived on a farm and, when Wil- 
liam was three years of age, were killed 
by a stroke of lightning while engaged 
in family prayer on Sabbath evening at 
their home near Wiliiamsport. Their 
remains lie in the old Newberry cemetery, 
Lycoming County. Mr. Stewart was 
educated in the public schools of Balti- 
more, Philadelphia and Montgomery 
County. He was formerly engaged in 
the rlyeing and scouring business but for 
the past thirty-nine years he has been 
holding a responsible position in the 
circulating department of the Public Ledger, Philadelphia. He has seen the 
Ledger grow from a small four-page newspaper to one of the largest and 
most readable journals in the world. In these many years he has been an 
earnest worker for the success of the Ledger and has contributed in no small 
degree to the wonderful success it has attained. Mr. Stewart has been a 
member of the House continuously since 1881, proof of the confidence 
and high esteem with which he is held by the electors of the Sixteenth Dis- 
trict, which he has represented these many years. At the election of 1894 
he had nearly 4,000 plurality. He is one of the most active and intelligent 
members of the House, is the chairman of the Committee on Banks and a 
member of the Ways and Means and Appropriations and other Committees. 
Mr. Stewart was a soldier during the late war, serving in Company K, 
Twentieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Company K, Two Hundred and 
Thirteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was promoted to lance sergeant 
for good conduct at Monocacy Junction, Md., April, 1865. 




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FLIAS ABRAMS, of the Sixteenth 
, Ward of Philadelphia, is serving his 
third term as a member of the House. 
By reason of the alphabetical construc- 
tion of his name he has led the roll-call 
and thereby has led his party in that 
respect. Commanding that position in 
the Legislature Mr. Abrams has enjoyed 
the most confidential relations with his 
party, the House watching lor the cue 
given by his vote. The occupation of Mr. 
Abrams' father was that of a carpenter. 
When a youth Representative Abrams was 
apprenticed to a coachmaker. He mas- 
tered this trade but drifted into politics. 
He was appointed to a position in the 
mint under the administration of Presi- 
dent Garfield. He was subsequently 
appointed general superintendent of the Third Sub-bureau of Water of the 
municipality of Philadelphia. Mr. Abrams bears the distinction of repre- 
senting a once strong Democratic ward, which attests his popularity and his 
influence. He was born on November 4, 1852. He is a graduate from the 
public school system of his native city. His father was an active and influ- 
ential Whig in the old district of Kensington. Mr. Abrams represents the 
Sixteenth and Eighteenth Wards. At the session of 1895 he served on the 
Committees on Insurance, Centennial Affairs, Municipal Corporations and 
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JOHN H. FOW, the popular Repre- 
J sentative from the Seventeenth Dis- 
trict, Philadelphia, was born in that city 
June 23, 1 85 1 . He is a great-grandson of 
Matthew Fow, who served in Captain 
Harmer's company of Colonel DeHaas' 
regiment, the first Pennsylvania battalion 
raised by order of Congress in Philadel- 
phia, October 12, 1775. His mother's 
grandfather, Lewis Gerringer, was a 
soldier in the German battalion of Penn- 
sylvania line, and his great uncle, ex-Judge 
Tyson, was a judge and a representative 
in Congress from New York. Mr. Fow's 
mother is still living at the advanced age 
of eighty-three years. Mr. Fow y is a grad- 
uate from the law office of ex-Judge F. 
Carroll Brewster, and has been prac- 
ticing at the Philadelphia bar since May 4, 1878. He twice represented 
the Seventeenth Ward of Philadelphia in Councils. He was chairman of the 
sub-committee of the bi-centennial celebration of the settlement of the State, 
and was likewise a member of the committee having in charge the celebration 
of the Constitution in 1887. Mr. Fow was the first President of the State 
Democratic League, and was Vice-President for the years 1888, 1889 and 
1S90. During the years 1882 and 18S3 he was a member of the State Demo- 
cratic Committee. He is one of the Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Fow has been correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Star since 1888. 
He is a bright and entertaining writer. He wrote the pamphlet for President 
Cleveland upon the right of the President to remove Federal officials, for 
which Mr. Cleveland sent him a personal letter of thanks. Mr. Fow made 
his initial appearance as a member of the House in 1889, and has since been 
continuously re-elected. He is famous for his pointed speeches, humorous 
quips and energetic manner in which he advocates all measures enlisting his 
attention and support. He is a clear and incisive debater, and his powerful 
arguments bear the undeniable impress of earnest conviction. He labors 
untiringly in behalf of Philadelphia. In the Seventeenth Ward, Philadelphia, 
where Mr. Fow resides, no man is a greater favorite. As a lawyer and legis- 
lator he has met with marked success. In i8,Sc>, 1891, 1893 and 1895 he 
was a member of the most important committees of the House and in 1895 
the chairman of the Democratic House caucus. 



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JAMES CLAREXCY, of the Eighteenth 
District, Philadelphia, was born at 
Allegheny, Pa., April i, 1849. His 
father was a small farmer and died March 
10, 1856, when James was seven years 
old. The same year the family removed 
to Philadelphia, where they have since 
resided. He was a member of the House 
for the term of 1893-4 and was re-elected 
for the term ot 1895-6. He has always 
been engaged in the mercantile line and 
in October, 1S79, entered the house of 
John Wanamaker and has been employed 
there continuously ever since. 




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JOHN ANDREW JACKSON ENNIS, 
J of the Thirty-first Ward, Philadelphia, 
was born January 20, [843, in that 
section of Philadelphia known before con- 
solidation as the district of Spring Garden . 
He conies from a distinguished family. 
His great-grandfather, Richard Ennis, was 
a soldier in the Continental Army, was 
born in Pennsylvania and participated in 
several battles of the Revolution. His 
mother's family were born in the Spring 
Garden District and his father's people 
came from Bucks County, Pa. Mr. Ennis 
secured his education in the public schools 
of his native city . He passed through the 
Binney primary school on Tenth street, 
below Girard avenue, the secondary at 
Eleventh and Thompson, the grammar at 
Eighth and Thompson, and in 1856 was transferred to the Randolph Street 
school, which he left in 1857 to begin the battle of life. He was apprenticed 
to the trade of a ship carpenter in the famous ship-building yards of Kensing- 
ton. Although but a youth when the War of the Rebellion broke out, Mr. 
Ennis' patriotic nature was stirred in defense of the Union and when but 
eighteen years of age he enlisted, September 15, 1861, in Company F, Ninety- 
first Pennsylvania Volunteers. The hardships of the service were too great 
for his nature and he was discharged from the service on January 12, 1862, 
for disability. He resumed his occupation in the ship yards. For fourteen 
years past he has been foreman of the ship-fastening department for Charles 
Hillman & Co., ship-builders of Philadelphia. Mr. Ennis has been identi- 
fied with the Republican Party since he has had a vote and has taken an 
active interest in its affairs. He has been a member of his Ward Executive 
Committee and for five years its vice president and repeatedly has been a dele- 
gate to its city and district conventions. In 1888 he was elected a member 
of the Legislature and has been re-elected three times. He possesses the con- 
fidence of the leaders of his district in a marked degree and has always been 
a popular member of the Philadelphia delegation. 



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\ LFRED H. RAVEN, of the Eigh- 
l\ teenth District of Philadelphia, 
which embraces the celebrated manufac- 
turing wards of that city, the Nineteenth 
and Thirty-first, and which are conceded 
to represent the greatest textile industrial 
center of the world, was born in the far- 
famed district of Southwark in that city, 
a section which has given to Philadelphia 
so many men of prominence and fume 
in every walk of life, on November, 
27, 1850. At that time the district of 
Southwark was one of the several dis- 
tricts of the city having an independent 
government, and which coutinued until 
the act of consolidation was passed by 
the Legislature in 1854. Mr. Raven 
obtained a common school education in 
the public schools of his native city, and was subsequently apprenticed to 
the trade of shoemaking, which he followed with success. He became a 
resident of the Nineteenth Ward while still a young man and entered 
politics there as a division worker. His services brought him to the notice 
of the party leaders, who had him appointed, in 1887, to the position of 
meter inspector in the Gas Department. His usefulness to his party caused 
him to be selected, in 1892, from a large field of aspirants, as a candidate for 
the Legislature, and he polled a flattering vote. In 1894 he was elected by 
a largely increased majority. He was a member of important committees. 







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'ILLIAM H. KKYSER, a member 
from the Nineteenth Philadelphia 
District, was born in the district of 
Spring Garden, Philadelphia, on May 19, 
1855. His father, Andrew J. Keyser, 
was a joiner and worked at his trade in 
the Philadelphia Navy Yard from [860 
until shortly after President Cleveland's 
first inauguration. James Smallman, 
who built the engine for Robert Fulton's 
first steamboat, was an ancestor of the 
Representative. Young Keyser was a 
pupil of the Wyoming Grammar School. 
After nine years' attendance in the public 
schools he struck out, when less than 
fifteen years old, to earn his own living. 
He was employed from 1870 to 1879 in 
Deary's Old Book Store, Philadelphia, 
where among his fellow sales-clerks was Edwin S. Stuart, late Mayor and 
proprietor of that store. Mr. Keyser next established at Tenth and Arch 
streets the widely known firm of William H. Keyser & Co., wholesale 
dealers in school books, whose store is now at No. 938 Market street. He 
was chosen a member of the State Committee in [888 and in subsequent 
years. He was secretary of the city convention that nominated Magistrate 
Develin, and has for twenty years been a leader in the politics of the 
Twentieth Ward, his residence having been continuously in the Twenty-ninth 
Division. Mr. Keyser was a delegate to several important State Conventions. 
He was chairman of the committee appointed by the State Convention of 
1 89 1 to elect delegates-at-large for the proposed constitutional convention 
Mr. Keyser 's first effort to be a Representative, in 1881, was made 
unsuccessful by the movement that elected Robert E. Pattison Governor, 
Mr. Keyser and Samuel A. Boyle, now Assistant District Attorney of Phila- 
delphia, being defeated for the House by Messrs. Hall and Abbett. In 1884 
he was first elected to the House, and he has served since with marked ability. 
He is and has been for four terms chairman of the Committee on Passenger 
Railways. In 1889 he successfully piloted among other bills, those giving 
wheelmen right of way, and enabling foreign steamboat and transportation 
companies to hold real estate ; also the bill known as the General Street Pas- 
senger Railway Act, to remedy defective and narrowly-drafted laws. The 
Sheriff's fee bill, defeated in 1883 and 1885, was through Mr. Keyser's energy 
and influence, made a law in 1887. A special tribute to his sagacity and 
trustworthiness was paid in 1885, when he was the only member of the 
Judiciary General Committee who was not a lawyer. Other Committees on 
which he served in 1895 are the Ways and Means, Insurance, Education and 
Mines and Mining. His characteristics are bed-rock common sense, 
tireless industrv and vigilance and fidelitv to his friends. 



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OHN H. RIEBEL, one of the two 
Representatives from the Twentieth 
Ward, Philadelphia, was born in the old 
district of Northern Liberties, on the 
7th day of January, 1845. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools and then 
went to a trade. Two months after the 
Confederate guns had shelled Fort 
Sumpter, inaugurating the War of the 
Rebellion, Mr. Riebel hastened to the 
defence of the Union. He enlisted in 
the United States Marine Corps on the 
3d of June, 1 86 1 , and served throughout 
the entire war. After his enlistment he 
was attached to the sloop of war St. 
Louis, of the North Atlantic Squadron, 
which was detailed for duty at foreign 
stations in the blockade service at the 
beginning of the strife. He subsequently saw service on the southern coast 
and in 1864 participated in the re-occupation of the rebel Fort Sumpter and 
the raising of the stars and stripes over that stronghold. He was honorably 
discharged on December 12, 1865. Returning to the paths of peace, Mr. 
Riebel embarked in the cigar manufacturing business, which he has followed 
since. He has been an active Republican and a loyal lieutenant of David 
H. Lane, the well-known State and city leader. He has been a member of 
the Ward Executive Committee for many years and has constantly been 
elected a delegate to his party convention. It was the unwritten law of his 
district, prior to his election to the Legislature, that two terms should consti- 
tute a legislative career, but the subject of this sketch has now broken the 
law thrice, having been a member since 1887, which includes five sessions. 
Mr. Riebel is esteemed for his rare social qualities and his obliging disposition, 
two qualifications required for success in politics. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order, also of the Senior Order of American Mechanics, Knights of 
Pythias, Junior American Mechanics and Ancient Order of United Work- 
men. He also holds membership in the E. D. Baker Post, No. 8, G. A. R., 
Union Veteran Legion, No. 20, the Fidelity Club, the Union Republican Club 
and the Republican Club of the Twentieth Ward. 



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MW. KERKESLAGER, the Repre 
. sentative in the House from tin 



the 
Twentieth District of Philadelphia, was 
horn in Schuylkill County, April 24, 
1859. After attending the public schools 
in his native county, he, at the age of six- 
teen years, went to Philadelphia, where 
he secured employment in a woolen 
mill. For eight years he was foreman 
of the weaving department in the estab" 
lishment of Savile, Schofield Sons <S: 
Co. In 1886 he started a hat and gents' 
furnishing store at Main and Levery 
streets, Manayunk,and has been engaged 
in that business ever since. He has 
always been an active Republican and 
has been secretary of his Ward Com- 
mittee for many years. A few years ago 
he conducted a close fight for nomination for Council. At the nominating 
convention of his party in 1894 he was selected as the Republican candidate 
for the House by an almost unanimous vote of the delegates, carrying 
twenty-four of the twenty-seven divisions in the ward. He was elected in 
November, 1894, by the largest majority ever given to a candidate in his 
ward. Mr. Kerkeslager was a member of the Committees on Municipal 
Corporations, Printing, Retrenchment and Reform and Accounts. While 
he took no prominent part in legislation he tried to faithfully represent his 
constituents and the State as a member of the House. 




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JOHN T. HARRISON, representing 
theTwenty-second Ward of Philadel- 
phia in the House, was born in Eng- 
land on the 8th of March, 1S4S. He was 
brought to this country by his parents 
when five months old, and received his 
education in the public schools of Ger- 
mantown. His career began with the 
Rebellion. Although a youth of between 
fifteen and sixteen years he determined 
to enlist through a patriotic impulse. 
His eagerness to don the blue was not 
appreciated by the recruiting officers of 
the Union Army stationed in Philadel- 
phia and the vicinity, who rejected him 
by reason of his age discpialification and 
because he could not pioduce the consent 
of his parents. The youthful Harrison 
then journeyed to Baltimore, where he was more successful. On the 13th 
day of February, 1864, he became a member of company B, Eleventh Mary- 
land, shouldering a musket. He served with distinction until the close of 
the war and received an honorable discharge. On the return to his home 
Mr. Harrison entered the service of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 
being appointed express messenger on the main line and branches for nine 
years. Mr. Harrison is a prosperous and wide-awake manufacturer at Ger- 
mantown, which is a busy hive of industry. He is a member of the firm of 
Harrison & Maltratt, hoisery manufacturers. He is a member of the Masonic 
Order and of Ellis Post No. 6, G. A. R. Mr. Harrison has been an active 
Republican since his return from the army. He has served as delegate to party 
conventions and as a member of the Ward Committee. He was elected to the 
Legislature in 1892, after a memorable contest, Herbert Walsh, President 
Cleveland's Indian Commissioner and a well-known reformer, running as a 
third candidate in the hope of diverting the Republican vote. Mr. Harrison 
was elected by almost the regulation party majority, which was a splendid 
testimonial of the appreciation in which he is held by people of the Twenty- 
second Ward. In 1894 he was re-elected by a plurality of about 4,200. He 
served on the Committees on Bureau of Statistics, City Passenger Railways, 
Judicial Apportionment and Manufactures. 



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'RANKLIN REED, who represents 
the Twenty-second District of Phila- 
delphia in the House, was born in 
Pottsville, Schuylkill Comity, Novem- 
ber 1 6, 1830. After receiving an ordinary 
school education he learned mechanical 
engineering-. He first operated a station- 
ary engine and afterward filled the 
position of locomotive engineer. In 
1S51 he removed to Philadelphia and 
entered the shipbuilding business with 
James House, who was engaged prin- 
cipally in constructing coasting vessels. 
Ten years ago Mr. Reed started in busi- 
ness for himself at Cooper's Point, 
Camden, where he has been engaged 
since that time mainly in repairing canal 
boats. In 1890 and 1891 he was a member 
of Common Council of Philadelphia from the Twenty-fifth Ward. This 
position he resigned to become a member of the Legislature. Mr. Reed was 
honored with a unanimous nomination for member of the House and was 
elected over his Democratic opponent by a majority of about 5,400. He has 
taken an active part in Philadelphia politics, was a member of the Ward 
Executive Committee for several years and served two years as its chairman. 
He has also represented his ward in the City Campaign Committee. At the 
session of the Legislature of 1895 he served on the Committees on Judicial 
Apportionment, Judiciary Local, Printing and Elections. While Mr. Reed 
took no part in discussion on the floor of the House, he was regular in his 
attendance at the sessions and applied himself closely and conscientiously to 
committee work. 



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7ILLIAM LITTLEY, of the Thirty- 
fifth Ward, Philadelphia, enjoyed 
the distinction in 1893 of more nearly 
representing himself than any other mem- 
ber of that delegation, perhaps. He was 
nominated against the command of the 
powerful combination that controls the 
Republican politics of Philadelphia, 
against the leaders of his district and 
of great and rich corporations- Mr. 
Littley was born in Birmingham, Eng- 
land, July 30, 1855. At the age of 
fifteen he accompanied his parents to 
this country, settling in Philadelphia. 
Soon after he was articled as an appren- 
tice to the trade of a wagon blacksmith 
and at the completion of his trade entered 
the employ of the Disston Saw Works, 
then located in the Kensington District. He was assigned to the drop 
forging department. He followed these great works when they moved to 
Tacony, in the Twenty-third Ward, and was made foreman of his depart- 
ment. His skill as a workman and inventive genius led him to suggest and 
to invent improvements in this department which actually doubled its 
output. His services thereby became invaluable to the firm, so much so 
that its operations were turned over to him under a contract. No man has 
a higher standing in the Disston Saw Works than he. Mr. Littley identified 
himself with the Republican Party when he came of age. He has been a 
member of the Ward Committee for a number of years, a delegate to many 
city nominating conventions and a factor in the political affairs of the ward. 
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Sparta and the 
Red Men. He was largely instrumental in the organization of the Tacony 
Republican Club and is an active member of the Union Republican Club, 
the central Republican club organization of the city. He swept the pri- 
maries for the nomination after one of the biggest contests the ward probably 
ever witnessed. In 1894 he was nominated and elected by 4,000 plurality, 
largelv increased from that received in 1892. 



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r\\MUEL PELTZ, Representative from 
v) the Twenty- fourth Philadelphia Dis- 
trict, is one of the ablest of the younger 
members of the Legislature, and this is 
his second term at law-making. He has 
won distinction as a calm, logical, force- 
ful speaker and an industrious and 
sagacious worker. Mr. Pelt/, was born 
in Philadelphia on September 9, i860. 
His father, Richard Peltz, is Deputy 
Clerk of the Quarter Sessions of Phil- 
adelphia, an ex-member of the City 
Councils and one of the Public Building 
Commissioners to whom special tributes 
of respect were paid by members of the 
present Legislature in their fight to 
abolish that commission. The paternal 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
was a member of the House of Representatives in 1830. The grandson was 
educated in private schools and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating 
from the college department of the latter institution in 1880. He studied law 
with the late William Nelson West, City Solicitor of Philadelphia, and 
Henry J. McCarthy, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He has practiced 
his profession ever since in his native city, mainly in civil cases, but has been 
very successful at the criminal bar also. He was Assistant City Solicitor from 
1SS2 to 1884, and Solicitor of the Public Buildings Commission for nearly 
four years, resigning the latter position to be a candidate for Representative. 
He served as a delegate in numerous nominating conventions, particularly 
those for Judges and City Solicitor. In November, 1892, he was elected 
Representative by a majority of about 2,700 over his Democratic opponent, 
and in 1894 was re-elected by about 5,000 plurality. In 1895 he was chair- 
man of the Committee on Public Buildings and a member of the Judiciary 
General, Ways and Means and other important Committees. His extensive 
legal knowledge and forensic skill were displayed in 1S93 in his leadership, 
011 the side of the Public Buildings Commission, of the discussion 011 the bill 
to abolish that body. Besides being enrolled in several local political clubs, 
including the Lincoln and Belmont Clubs of the Twenty -fourth Ward, Mr. 
Peltz is a member of the Young Republicans and Union League. 



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GEO. W. B. HICKS, one of the Re- 
presentatives from the Twenty-fourth 
District, Philadelphia, was born at Burn- 
side Barracks, Indianapolis, Indiana, 
September 10, 1864. His father was 
then captain of Company B, Veteran 
Reserve Corps, previously having been 
captain of Co. P, 71st Pa. Vols., under 
Colonel Baker. The parents of Mr. 
Hicks removed to Philadelphia when 
he was a child. He received a very 
limited education, being obliged to re- 
linquish his studies in the public schools 
when eleven years old to apply himself 
to work. After toiling several years he 
attended several educational institutions, 
including the Polytechnic College and 
the Alonzo Brown Academy. In 1885 he 
started in the real estate business, which he has successfully prosecuted since. 
He is known as a real estate operator, expert and general broker. In 1894 
he was nominated for the Legislature and received a plurality of nearly 
5,000. He showed a marked interest in all important legislation, but was 
especially prominent in advocating measures calculated to ameliorate the 
condition of the working people. He made a hard and gallant but unsuc- 
cessful fight for the passage of a bill for the establishment of free employ- 
ment offices in cities, and offered a resolution requesting the passage by 
Congress of immigration laws to give American laborers greater protection 
from competition with those of foreign countries than they now enjoy. 
Among the Committees on which he had a place were those of Education 
and Judiciary Local. Mr. Hicks is a brother of Thomas L. Hicks, who 
has served with distinction in the Philadelphia Councils for the past twelve 
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JOHN A. GILMORE, one of the Rep- 
I resentatives from the Twenty-fifth 
District, Philadelphia, was born in 
the north of Ireland, April 14, 1841. 
When eleven years old he arrived in 
Philadelphia with his parents and lias 
resided in that city from that time. After 
a limited education in the public schools 
he worked in woolen and worsted mills 
and in 186c became an employee of 
Campbell iS: Elliott, well-known woolen 
manufacturers. He has been in the 
employ of this firm uninterruptedly for 
thirty-five years and has for many years 
been their superintendent. He is the 
successor of Joseph G. Richmond, who 
was elected Commissioner of Philadel- 
phia after the expiration of his legislative 
term. In 1861, in response to the first call for troops, Mr. Gilmore enlisted 
in the Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, and served three months 
in the army. In 1864 he again entered the military service and did duty in 
the Cumberland Valley. He takes great interest in Republican politics and 
is a member of the Federal and Cameron clubs and the Harmony Legion of 
his congressional district. He is also connected with General Robert Patter- 
son Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, and is a member of 
the Philadelphia Presbytery. He served on the Committees on Legislative 
Apportionment, Printing, Mines and Mining, Pensions and Gratuities and 
Constitutional Reform. As a member Mr. Gilmore gave committee work 
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ROBERT SMITH, one of the Repre- 
sentatives from the Thirty-sixth 
Ward of Philadelphia, was born in that 
ward June 13, 1863. He has become 
widely know throughout the State as the 
author of the bill to prevent teachers in 
the public schools from wearing religious 
or denominational garbs, and has always 
taken great interest in the advancement 
of the patriotic orders. He is of Irish 
descent. His father once occupied a 
responsible position under the munici- 
pal government of Philadelphia in the 
Bureau of Gas. Representative Smith 
was educated in the public schools of 
his native city. He early entered mer- 
cantile life, first in the grocery business, 
but shortly afterwards went into the 
clothing business. After remaining for sixteen years in the employ of 
Wanamaker & Brown, he joined the forces of W. H. Wanamaker, with 
whom he yet retains a position. Mr. Smith, ever since his majority, has 
been very active in Republican politics in his ward. For several years he 
has been a member of the Ward Executive Committee. He was one of the 
incorporators of the Harmony Legion, of Company T, of which he was 
captain in the presidential campaign of 1888. He has been a member of 
the School Board of that portion of the Twenty-sixth Ward, cut off to form 
the Thirty-sixth Ward, and at his retirement received a very handsome and 
complimentary set of resolutions. He is a director of the Young Men 's Repub- 
lican Club of that ward. In 1S91 he was elected without opposition to fill the 
unexpired term of John M. Smith in the House and was re-elected for the 
full term in 1892 by a majority of 2,600. In 1894 he received a majority of 
over 5,300. Mr. Smith in 1895 was an active member of the Committee of 
City Passenger Railways and Municipal Corporations, two of the most im- 
portant of the House. His society relations are very extensive at home and 
include membership in the Knights Templars, American StarLodge, I. O.O. F., 
and Triumph Lodge, K. of P., of which he is a Past Chancellor. ; Mt. Sinai 
Lodge, American Protestant Association, of which he is at present an officer ; 
Reliance Council, 787, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and Court 
Columbia A. O. of Forresters. He is also a member of the Temple Club, 
a Masonic organization. 




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QAMUEE CROTHERS, who repre- 
vj sents the district comprising the 
Twenty-seventh Ward, West Philadel- 
phia, is one of the prominent young 
members of the House of Representa- 
tives, and acquired distinction at the 
session of 1893 as the champion of rapid 
transit measures, endorsed by a town 
meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia. 
Mr. Crothers was born in Philadelphia 
County on October 12, 1856, when the 
word " county " as attached to Philadel- 
phia indicated a large area of rural terri- 
tory. Mr. Crothers' father was a farmer 
and dairyman of the successful kind. 
At as early an age as the law allowed 
started off to the public schools the 
lad who was subsequently to attain dis- 
tinction as the Representative of his neighbors, first in the municipal legisla- 
ture and later in the law-making body of the State. For ten years young 
Crothers pursued the studies prescribed, when his desire to enter upon the 
active field of business life was yielded to by his parents. He learned the 
trade of marble worker in all its branches, and as soon as he reached the 
line which the law draws between youth and manhood he entered upon an 
active career in the marble business for himself and became an extensive 
employer. In this business he remained for eight years, when he recognized 
the enormous strides which Philadelphia was making in house building 
and embarked in the real estate business, at which he has been successful 
and in which he is now engaged. Upon entering into political life Mr. 
Crothers was chosen to represent his ward in Common Council and was 
re-elected twice. While serving his third term he resigned and became a 
member of the Legislature of 1891. There was no opposition to his nomi- 
nation in 1893, and the Democrats, recognizing the futility of opposition 
to his election, made no nomination for the office. Mr. Crothers' Com- 
mittees at the last session were Insurance, Federal Relations, City Passenger 
Railways and Congressional Apportionment. In 1894 he was re-elected 
by a plurality of about 3,300. 



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'HARLES HARRY FLETCHER, of 
Philadelphia, was born in the old 
district of Southwark on the nth day of 
February, 1849, and in October of that 
year moved into the Twenty-first Ward, 
now the Twenty-eighth. He is a son of the 
late Joshua L. Fletcher, who won na- 
tional fame, as the editor and publisher of 
the Philadelphia Daily Sun, the influential 
organ of the Native American Party. 
During the riots of 1844 the office of the 
Daily Sun was attacked by an infuriated 
mob and threatened with destruction. 
Mr. Fletcher was made of stern stuff, how- 
ever, and refused to be cowed by the 
rioters. For a number of years lie 
was one of the political leaders of the city 
and a man of strong force of character and 
literary ability. The subject of this sketch received a sound education in the 
public and private schools of Philadelphia. He began his active career in 
life as a clerk in the general office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in which 
employment he acquired a high standing. When he attained his majority he 
was known as an enthusiastic party worker, and he is now the Republican 
leader of the Twenty-eighth Ward, one of the largest, most populous and 
intelligent in the city. His first public appointment was in the Water De- 
partment of that city. He subsequently transferred his services to the Gas 
Bureau of the Receiver of Taxes, where he filled the position of Chief Clerk 
with marked ability. In 1888 Mr. Fletcher was elected to the Legislature 
and has served continuously since. In 1894 ne was re-elected by nearly 9,000 
plurality. He is looked upon as one of the leading and influential members 
of the City Delegation. For twenty- three years he has been a member of the 
Republican Executive Committee of his ward. He has been secretary of the 
Republican City Committee for ten years, for which he is peculiarily adapted 
both by training and experience, and in which capacity he has enjoyed inti- 
mate and confidential relations with the party leaders and has aided in mold- 
ing the party policy and the selection of the candidates. He holds an active 
membership in eleven political and social clubs. He is president of the 
Twenty-eighth-Thirty-second club, the leading Republican organization of 
his ward. He is a rare type of the bustling, tireless junior Republican 
leaders who have maintained Philadelphia steadily as the Gibralter of Repub- 
licanism. He resides in the family homestead. He is a brother of the late 
L- B. Fletcher, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and of Colonel J. S. 
Fletcher, of the United States Regular Army, now on the retired list. At 
the session of 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Corporations. 



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RICHARD SALINGER, representing 
in part the Twenty-eighth District. 
Philadelphia, was born October 17, [851, 
in the town of Teterow, Mecklenburg 
Schwerin, Germany, " thus casting ever- 
lasting glory," says Mr. Salinger, "on this 
small Duchy under the North Sea, which 
is also distinguished as the birth-place of 
such lesser lights as Bluecher, Mohke, 
Flotow, the composer of Martha, and 
others. Compelled on account of his liberal 
political opinions to leave the country, my 
father, a clergyman, brought us to this 
glorious country when I was a child a year 
and a half old. In my earlier childhood I 
was chiefly remarkable for my wonderful 
capacity for a milk diet, but as I advanced 
in age and experience other substances 
not quite so harmless were frequently mixed with this innocent beverage. I 
obtained my education in the public schools and graduated from the Central 
High School in Philadelphia (two years course) in 1865. Losing my parents 
at an early age I was placed to struggle in the mercantile community, but as 
my lofty spirit could never stoop to the sordid considerations of loss and gain, 
and there was generally more of the former than the latter, I drifted into the 
newspaper profession, where I remained several years, with like financial suc- 
cess. In the fall of 1878 I entered the law office of George H. Earle and 
Richard P. White, in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in January, 
1880. In the fall of 1881 I became counsel and secretary of the Disston 
Land Companies of Florida, where, after looking after the interests of the alli- 
gator and other valuable productions of that State until December, 1894, I 
resigned to take my seat in this House, where it is unnecessary to say my 
transcendant abilities were immediately recognized. I have forgotten to say I 
was born of poor but honest parents, as in my future great career this will be 
an important item in my biography." 




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WILLIAM NICKELL, who represents 
the Twenty -eighth District, Phila- 
delphia, was a member of the session of 
1 892- 1 893. He was born in Gordonville, 
Lancaster County, October 16, 1852. His 
father was a farmer and cattle dealer, and 
when the subject of this sketch was two 
years old his family moved to Philadel- 
phia, taking up a residence in the Fif- 
teenth Ward. His father died when he 
was nine years old, leaving a wife and 
three children, of whom William was the 
eMest. This deprived the family of its 
main support at a time when it was most 
needed and naturally restricted the advan- 
tages the children would have enjoyed if 
their father had lived. William attended 
the public schools two years longer, leav- 
ing the Lincoln Grammar School, at Twentieth and Fairmount avenue, to 
contribute to the family support by becoming an errand boy. When sixteen 
years of age he connected himself with passenger railway companies, acting 
as driver, conductor and finally becoming stable boss. For the past fifteen 
years he has been a traveling salesman and was president of the Pennsyl- 
vania Division of the Traveling Protective Association of America and of 
the Salesmen's Association of Philadelphia, which he helped to organize 
ten years ago. Mr. Nickell is a zealous and enthusiastic Republican and 
has been a member of the State Republican Committee for years. He is 
serving his eighth term as a member of the Ward Committee and for six years 
has been chairman of the Committee on Organization. He was a delegate 
to the convention which nominated Hon. Galusha A. Grow to the office ot 
Congressman-at-Large. He is one of the most active and best equipped 
members and parliamentarians of the House. He is a reads' debater and is 
always in his seat. He is a member of the Committees on Banks, Counties 
and Townships, Public Health and Sanitation and Manufactures. Mr. 
Nickell introduced and championed in the committee, and on the floor of 
the House, bills prohibiting the employment of any but American citizens 
in the erection, enlargement and improvement of any building to which 
State funds are appropriated ; making it unlawful to utter or accept promis- 
sory notes to which a voluntary confession of judgment is attached; a bill 
to license slaughter houses ; prohibiting the bringing of suits when barred 
by limitation in the State or county in which the cause of action arose ; also 
a joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution of the Common- 
wealth to do away with spring elections, providing that members of the Leg- 
islature, Judges of Courts of Record and all offices to be voted for by the 
electors of the State at large shall be elected in November in even-numbered 
years and county, city, ward, borough and township officers shall be elected 
in November in odd-numbered vears. 



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DANIEL FOULKE MOORE, of Phoe- 
nixville, was born July 24, 1841, in 
Upper Merion Township. Montgomery 
County. Mr. Moore's father is a lead- 
ing citizen and agriculturist of Mont- 
gomery County, where the ancestors of 
his mother, Phoebe Foulke Moore, located 
in 1698, being a part of the Welsh 
Quaker colcny that settled in South- 
eastern Pennsylvania at that time. The 
early life of Mr. Moore was spent upon 
his father's farm, following the usual 
agricultural pursuits and attending public 
schools in the winter. Subsequently in 
1856 one term was spent at private 
school in West Chester. The balance 
of his educational opportunities were had 
at Gwynedd boarding school, where he 
spent three winters. Having learned the art of telegraphy, Mr. Moore, 
in the spring of 1862, entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading 
Railroad Company as an extra operator. He was stationed at Reading, 
Harrisburg and other important points, filling the position also of train dis- 
patcher and otherwise proving his ability in these important and responsible 
positions. Mr. Moore enlisted August, 1862, in Company E, One Hundred 
and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, for nine months. 
He was afterwards assigned to the Frist Brigade, First Division of the 
Twelfth Army Corps, and participated with his regiment in the battles of 
Antietam and Chancellorsville. He was honorably discharged May, 1863, 
at the expiration of his enlistment. A few weeks later he re-enlisted "for 
the emergency" during the Gettysburg campaign, serving nearly four months 
in the Thirty-first Regiment. He re-entered his old company's employ and 
was stationed at Phoenixville in November, 1863, as train dispatcher, which 
position he retained until 1870, when he became a partner in the firm of Cas- 
well & Moore in the stove, tin and roofing business, in which he is still en- 
gaged. He has been chosen Burgess of Phoenixville, which is largely Demo- 
cratic, a distinction that but few Republicans have enjoyed the past 
quarter of a century. During the period of re-organization of the National 
Guard after the close of the rebellion Mr. Moore was appointed Assistant 
Adjutant General on the staff of General J. R. Dobson, commanding the 
then Tenth division, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has always 
been an enthusiastic Republican. He is a birthright member of the Society 
of Friends. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives in 
November, 1892, from the Northern District of Chester County, receiving 
the highest vote cast for any candidate on the Republican legislative ticket 
In 1894 he received a plurality of about 5.100. He was a member of the 
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FLOYD LEE KINNER, one of the 
Republican members from Bradford 
County, hails originally from Flatbrook- 
ville, New Jersey, where he was born May 
27, 1856. His father, while Floyd was 
but a lad, went to Pike County and en- 
gaged in the lumber business. In 1865 
he came over to Bradford County and 
settled at Ulster and later at what formerly 
was Tioga Point, in the early days of the 
Commonwealth the rendezvous of the Six 
Nations, and now called by the more 
classical name of Athens, and en- 
gaged in the mercantile business. At 
his death he was succeeded by his son 
Floyd, the subject of this sketch. Floyd 
received his education in the schools of 
Athens, in which he has ever taken 
a deep interest. He has served in the capacity of School Director and was 
a member of the Board at the time the present magnificent school building 
was erected, which is considered the finest in Bradford County. He was 
also one of its promoters. After going through the schools of Athens he 
graduated at the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie. In 1892 he 
was elected a member of the House by a handsome majority, particularly as 
the county had been represented in the session of 1891 by two Fusionists and 
a Democrat. In 1894 he was re-elected receiving the largest vote cast out- 
side the State ticket. In 1S95 he served on the Committees on Appropria- 
tions, City Passenger Railways, Geological Survey, Vice and Immorality and 
Labor and Industry. Mr. Kinner is one of the quiet and hard-working mem- 
bers who believe the most efficient and practical work is done in committees. 
He is distinctively a business man, one of the conservative majority which 
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ILLIAM HENRY WOODRING, 
of Northampton County, was born 
December 7, 1854, in Upper Nazareth 
Township of the same county. 1 1 is 
father taught school for thirty-five years 
and served one term as County Commis- 
sioner, from 1S74 to [877. Representa- 
tive Woodring attended the common 
schools of his county until he was four- 
teen years old, when he began clerking 
in a mercantile house, continuing until 
1S74. He then took a course in East- 
man's National Business College at 
Poughkeepsie, New York, from which 
he graduated. He again connected him- 
self with the mercantile business and 
remained in it until 1878, when he en- 
tered Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. 
After three years' schooling in that institution, he read law and was 
admitted to the Northampton County bar in 1885. He in connection 
with the practice of his profession followed mercantile business and stock 
farming until the spring of [895, and is now devoting all his attention to the 
practice of the law. Mr. Woodring was a member of the National Guard 
of Pennsylvania from 1874 to 1879, and participated in the fight directed 
against the rioters at Reading in 1877, resulting in the death of a number of 
people. He was then a member of the Easton Grays, with which organi- 
zation he was connected for five years. He was elected to his first political 
office when the Democrats of Northampton County chose him to represent 
them in part in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in 1892. In 
1894 he was re-elected and in 1895 served on the Committees on Judiciary 
General ,. Ways and Means, Elections, Banks and Counties and Townships. 




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LATIMER WILSON was born in 
. McAllisterville, Juniata Co., Pa., 
October 20, 1831. His parents were 
of Scotch-Irish extraction and resided in 
this country for many years. Mr. Wil- 
son received his education in the public 
schools of his native county and after 
graduating he engaged in the merchan- 
dizing business and has followed it for 
the greater portion of his life. For the 
past few years he has been living on a 
farm and followed the life of a farmer. 
He resides on and owns a beautiful farm 
containing about two hundred and fifty 
acres of w r ell -tilled and productive land, 
adjoining a small town called Van Wert, 
in Juniata County, and within six miles 
of MifHintown. Mr. Wilson has always 
been an active Republican and was elected in 1892 to the House of Repre- 
sentatives from what is generally considered a Democratic county. His ser- 
vices at that session were such as made inevitable his re-election, and he was 
accordingly returned for the session of 1895, speaking well for the esteem in 
which he is held. In the last session he was a useful and influential member 
of the Committees on Compare Bills, Congressional Apportionment, Constitu- 
tional Reform, Counties and Townships and Iron and Coal. 




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FRANK MAST, one of the Republican 
members from Armstrong County, 
was born in Clarion County, Pa., March 
2, 1855. His parents moved to Arm- 
strong County in 1859, and young Mast 
received his education in the schools of 
that county. In early life he followed min- 
ing and railroading. In 1880 he entered 
the mercantile business, in which he is 
still engaged. He was elected a member 
of the Republican County Committee 
three times in succession, elected dele- 
gate to the State Convention in 1888 and 
chosen Township Auditor and Judge of 
Election. In 1891 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the House to fill the unexpired 
term of J. M. McKee, deceased, without 
opposition and was re-elected the follow- 
ing year by a plurality of over 600. In 1894 he received a plurality of over 
2,100. Mr. Mast's great-grandfather, John F. Mast, was born in Germany 
about the year 1750 and came to this country when a young man, with two 
of his brothers, all of whom settled in Bucks County, Pa. He died in North- 
ampton Count}' in 18 15. His grandfather, Jacob Mast, was born in North- 
ampton County in 1798 and moved to Clarion County in 1833, where he died 
in 1877. His father, Isaac, who is still living, was also born in North- 
ampton county and followed blacksmithing. Mr. Mast was married to Miss 
Letitia Hays, of Armstrong County, July 25, 1879, and is the father of four 
children — Master Wade, Miss Wave, Master Blaine and Miss Flo. At the 
session of 1895 Mr. Mast was on the Committees on Corporations, Mines and 
Mining, Public Health and Sanitation and Elections. 







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BENJAMIN K. FOCHT, editor of the 
Lewisburg Saturday News and mem- 
ber from Union, was born in Perry County, 
March 12, 1863. On his father's side he 
is descended from a long line of Lutheran 
ministers, his great-grandfather coming 
from Germany in the last century, serving 
in the Revolutionary War. His father 
was the Rev. D. H. Focht, a theologian 
and orator of note, who died when the 
subject of this sketch was but one year old. 
After his father's death his mother and 
family removed to Lewisburg, her former 
home, where Benjamin K. Focht has since 
resided. During his early youth he at- 
tended the Bucknell Academy, at Lewis- 
burg, State College and the Institute at 
Selinsgrove, and entered a printing office 
as an apprentice at fourteen. In 1S81, at the age of eighteen years, he wrote 
the salutatory for the first issue of the Lewisturg Local News, of which he 
was part owner for one year, when he assumed sole proprietorship and changed 
the name of the paper to the Lewisburg Saturday News. From then until 
now he has continued in the same capacity, until now he owns one of the 
best equipped and most complete newspaper plants in Central Pennsylvania, 
and ranks among the strongest editorial writers. In 1887 he was married to 
the daughter of H. G. Wolf, a prominent merchant and president of the 
Farmers' bank, Mifflinburg. He has one child, a daughter, three years eld. 
Before he was of age Mr. Focht entered politics, taking side in his paper in 
the memorable bactle that attended the Independent revolt, standing for the 
Stalwart ticket. In 1889 he was a delegate to the State Convention, in 1892 
a Congressional Conferee and three times was a delegate to the Republican 
League State Convention. In 1892 he was elected to the House, and in 1S94 
re-elected. In 1892 he was bitterly fought on account of his leadership in 
the battle to defeat Judge Bucher, Democrat, for re-election. H. M. Mc- 
Clure, Republican, Mr. Focht's brother-in-law, was elected in the memorable 
contest, although a resident of Northumberland County and opposed by a man 
who was reputed to be the most sagacious politician in Central Pennsylvania 
and who had as his supporters nearly the entire bar of the district, all the old 
politicians, all the Democratic papers of the district and five Republican 
papers, and in addition had the prestige of having carried the district in 1871 
over an able lawyer by more than 2,000 majority. This victory at once gave 
Mr. Focht a place among the best organizers and resourceful leaders in the 
State. As a member of the House he stands among the most active and hard- 
working legislators ; he is a forceful debater and always champions the agri- 
cultural and labor interests of the State. 



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SMITH TALBOT, of Chester 
County, has taken a leading position 
in the Legislature since he first became a 
member at the session of 1889. He was 
born in Honeybrook Township, Novem- 
ber 19, 1 841. He is a son of Caleb P. 
and Elizabeth Buchanan Talbot. Mr. 
Talbot's father was a soldier in the War 
of 18 1 2 and his ancestry took an active 
part with the colonists in the Revolu- 
tionary War against Great Britain. In 
the War of the late Rebellion five of the 
Talbot boys were in the Northern Army 
at the same time, two of whom lost their 
lives in the struggle for right against 
wrong. He was reared on a farm. He 
comes from a family that is a landmark 
in Chester County and which has pro- 
duced a number of distinguished men. Having obtained a rudimentary 
education in the public schools, Mr. Talbot was sent consecutively to the 
academies at Morgantown, Waynesburg and Parkersburg. Having com- 
pleted his education, Mr. Talbot passed an examination for a school 
teacher's certificate and for eight years taught in the public schools of 
Chester County. During the Lee invasion of Pennsylvania Mr. Talbot 
enlisted in the Forty-second Pennsylvania Regiment for the three months' 
service. After his discharge from the army he became a student at law 7 and 
on April 16, 1S70, he was admitted to the bar of Chester County and subse- 
quently to the bars of Delaware, Mifflin and Schuylkill Counties, in which 
he had clients. Mr. Talbot comes from a race of politicians and early 
identified himself with the Republican Party. He has repeatedly been a 
delegate to County Conventions and in 1885 was a senatorial delegate to the 
State Convention. In 1887 he was elected by the Borough Council the 
Solicitor for the Borough of West Chester. In 1891 he was nominated for 
State Senator to fill a vacancy, but was defeated through the apathy of the 
Republican voters of the county. He was first elected to the Legislature in 
1889 and has served continuously since. In the session of 1893 Mr. Talbot 
was chairman of the Committee on Elections, which committee was one of 
the most important, politically, of the session. At the session of 1895 he 
was re-appointed chairman of this committee. He is universally regarded 
as one of the strong men of the House and is the only person ever accorded 
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AUGUSTUS G. SEYFERT was born 
in Berks County, Pa., April 26, 
1852. Two years later his parents moved 
to Bowmansville, Lancaster County, 
where Mr. Seyfert's boyhood days were 
spent, most of the time in the village 
school. In 1 868 his mother died and 
soon after he left his old home and started 
life on the farm of ex- Recorder Martin, a 
leading politician of East Earl Township. 
Mr. Seyfert's education was obtained in 
the public schools and several sessions at 
the Millersville Normal School. The 
country literary society was the best 
practical school to fit him for his legisla- 
tive duties and made his popularity in 
his county so conspicuous as a lyceum 
orator. In 1872 Mr. Seyfert began 
teaching and taught in the public schools of Lancaster County for many 
years. He was recognized as one of the most successful and progressive 
teachers in the county. In 1886 Mr. Seyfert was elected President of the 
New Holland Teachers' Institute District, comprising nearly a hundred 
schools, and was unanimously re-elected for nine consecutive terms. In 
1889 he conceived the idea of holding an open air educational meeting at 
Rutland Park, a picnic resort on the Welsh mountain, in eastern Lancaster 
County. The undertaking was a great success from the beginning, and 
every year since thousands have gathered there to enjoy the largest attended 
educational meetings ever held in the State. Mr. Seyfert has always been 
an ardent Republican and for many years a member of the Republican 
County Committee and chairman of the same in 1893. He was Postmaster 
during the Hayes' administration at Beartown for four years. In 1890 Mr. 
Seyfert was elected from the Northern District of Lancaster County a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives and re-elected in 1892 and in 1894. He 
was chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations at the session of 1893 
and chairman of the Committee on Manufactures during the session of 1 895 
and also a member of the Committees on Appropriations, Banks, Library and 
Education. Mr. Seyfert achieved the greatest prominence during his whole 
legislative career in his bitter opposition to the Religious Garb Bill . 



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7ILLIAM R. JEFFREY, Represen- 
tative from the Fourth District of 
Luzerne County, was born October 12, 
1857, at Slatington, Lehigh County, Pa. 
His father was a contractor for quarry- 
ing roofing slate, and his son, William, 
worked in the quarries for a number of 
years in summer and attended the public 
schools in winter. At the age of seven- 
teen years young Jeffrey accompanied his 
father to the Copper Lehigh coal mines in 
Luzerne County, in which he has worked 
ever since, except when serving his con- 
stituents in the Legislature of Pennsyl- 
vania. He resides at Freeland, which is 
surrounded by coal mines. He has 
shown his popularity by being thrice 
elected in a district which gives a 
natural Democratic majority of between 700 and 800. In 1890 he was 
chosen to the House by a majority of 217, and in 1S93 by four. His seat 
was contested, but a Democratic court decided that he was legally entitled 
to a seat in the L p gislature. In 1894 he received nearly 800 plurality. 
Mr. Jeffrey is not only popular with his constituents of both political parties, 
but he is an honored member of the Knights of Labor and has declined to 
accept a number of honorable positions in the order tendered him in recog- 
nition of his worth. He was master workman of Local Assembly of Knights 
of Labor No. 335, of Freeland. He was also district delegate of that order, 
president of the Freeland Patriotic Order of Sons of America, a member of 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Red Men and Junior American 
Mechanics. At the session of the Legislature of 1893 he was chairman of 
the Committee on Bureau of Statistics and a member of the Appropriations, 
Coal and Iron, Judicial Apportionment and Vice and Immorality Com- 
mittees. At the session of 1895 he was re-appointed chairman of the 
Committee on Bureau of Statistics. He was the first to introduce the bill 
having for its main object the creation of a new county out of parts of 
Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties. Mr. Jeffrey has not been given to much 
talk on the floor of the House, but has demonstrated great capacity for 
committee work. 




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TOHN CRAWFORD HARVEY was 
born at Harvey ville, Luzerne County, 
Pa., on May 6, i860. He is the eldest 
son of the late A.N. Harvey, who was 
well known throughout that part of the 
State. His mother, who is still living, 
was the daughter of the late Dr. John S. 
Crawford, of Williamsport, Pa., a prom- 
inent physician. His father was a very 
successful business man. The Harvey 
family came originally from Connecticut 
and was a pioneer in the Wyoming Val- 
ley, some of the members being engaged 
in the terrible battle of Wyoming in 
1778. They have always been prominent 
in business and socially. Mr. Harvey 
was educated in the district schools and 
in June, 18S0, graduated from Dickinson 
Seminary at Williamsport, taking the degree of Bachelor of Science. After 
the completion of his school life he returned to his home, engaging in active 
business with his father as partner. In 1882 and 1884 he made extensive 
tours through the west and northwest and after his return accepted a position 
of responsibility with the Pennsylvania railroad at Camden, X. J., and after- 
ward transferred to Jersey City. In February, 1889, he was compelled to 
resign from the service of the company on account of broken health. Locat- 
ing at Duluth, Minn., in November, 1889, he engaged in real estate business. 
On account of the sudden death of his father in October, 1890, he was com- 
pelled to give up his business venture in the northwest and return home to 
take charge of the varied interests of his father's estate. Mr. Harvey has 
always been active in political circles and years before he cast his first vote 
was busy in furthering the interests of the Republican Party. He was a 
delegate to the State Convention in 1891 and is always present at the county 
convention proceedings. In 1892 Mr. Harvey was elected to the House by 
442 plurality and in 1894 by over 1,200. In 1895 Mr. Harvey was a mem- 
ber of the Committees on Agriculture, Library, Corporations, Municipal 
Corporations and Education. He has always been a valuable member for 
his distiict and early earned the reputation of being one of its most devoted 
ot members to his work. 




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EORGE R. DIXON, who represents 
Elk County in the House, was born 
in the town of Neversink, Sullivan 
County, New York, July 23, 1X48. His 
parents died when he was thirteen years 
old, and he made his home with Dr. J. L. 
LaMoree, of Grahamsville, New York, 
with whom lie remained until the eight- 
eenth year of his age, working for his 
board and clothes and attending the vil- 
lage school in winter. Subsequently he 
entered the Monticello Academy, in New 
York State, and supported himself largely 
by giving special lessons in some of the 
lower grades. Among his classmates 
were many persons who are prominent 
in business circles in Pennsylvania. On 
June 20, 1 868, he was graduated from 
the Monticello (N. Y. 1 Academy at the head of his class and delivered the 
valedictory oration at the commencement exercises. In the fall of 1869 he 
entered Rutgers College, from which he was graduated with the degree of 
A. B. in 1873. In June. 1876, the same institution conferred on him the 
degree of M. A. While in college he gave special lessons in English to 
Japanese students sent to the institution by order of the Government of Japan. 
In September, 1873, he removed to Ridgway, where he was the principal of 
the schools of the town for two years. In May, 1875, he was elected super- 
intendent of the schools of Elk County, and the same honor was repeatedly 
conferred on him without opposition, holding the office four terms. While 
devoting himself to school work he attended educational conventions 
throughout the State as instructor and lecturer, and as a consequence 
became well known in all sections of Pennsylvania. In 1876 he wrote and 
published a complete history of public school education in Elk County from 
its earliest settlement to the date of the issue of the work. On May 30, 
1878, he was admitted to practice as attorney in the courts of Elk County. 
He has for many years been actively identified with the Democratic Party 
and for several years served as chairman of the County Committee. On 
December 1, 1884, he purchased the Elk Democrat and has conducted it suc- 
cessfully ever since. His nomination as a candidate for the Legislature was 
given him without solicitation, and his election was accomplished without 
much trouble, notwithstanding the unfavorable political conditions. Mr. 
Dixon not only contributes to the columns of his own paper but to metropol- 
itan dailies. As a legislator he ranked with the ablest members of the House 
and possessed the warm esteem of all who knew him at the session of 1895. 
He served on the Committees on Judicial Apportionment, Judiciary Local, 
Printing and Constitutional Reform. 



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TRA FRANKLIN MANSFIELD was 
1 born June 27, 1842, in Poland, Ohio. 
His great-grandfather, John, served in 
the Sixth Connecticut in 1776 and 1777 
and in the Twenty-sixth United States 
Regulars up to 18 14. For coolness and 
punctuality in storming redoubt No. 10, 
at Yorktown, he was promoted to cap- 
tain. His grandfather, Ira, was an early 
settler on the Western Reserve and 
served as captain in several expeditions 
against the Indians. His father, Isaac 
K., was a merchant, having stores in 
Poland and Philadelphia. Ira F. at- 
tended school in Poland until he was 
fifteen years old, when he was placed to 
learn the moulder's trade in Pittsburg. 
He was married December 11, 1872, to 
Lucy E. Mygatt, of Poland, and they have three children — Kirtland M., 
Mary L. and Henry B. In August, 1862, Mr. Mansfield enlisted as private 
in Company H, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio; he was promoted Orderly 
Sergeant, First and Second Lieutenants and for " conspicuous bravery " at 
the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge breveted Captain 
and assigned as A. A. Q. M., 14 A. C. He marched with " Sherman down 
to the sea," took part in the campaigns through North and South Carolinas 
and was present at the grand review at Washington. He bought out the 
Darlington Cannel Coal Mines in 1865, operating them successfully with 
other large bituminous plants. He made a systematic survey of his cannel 
coal for the Second Geological Survey, discovering over six hundred 
varieties of fossil plants and insects. In view of his services he was elected 
a member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. He was Justice of 
the Peace and Treasurer of Darlington Township for eighteen years. He 
was a member of the Legislature at the sessions of 1881 and 1893, and was 
re-elected to the House of 1895 by over 2,500 plurality. He is trustee in the 
Beaver College and Griersburg Academy, director in the Rochester National 
Bank, Electric Light Company and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is 
an amateur photographer, having a fine collection of views, Indian relics 
and implements from mound builders. In politics he trains with the " Old 
Guard " of the Republican Party. In 1895 he was chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Mines and Mining and a member of the Committees on Counties 
and Townships, Appropriations, Iron and Coal, Fish and Game and 
Statistics. 



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WITMAN DAMBLY was born in 
the village of Skippack, Mont- 
gomery County, Pa., August 26, 1X64. 
His education was received in the pub- 
lic schools of that village, which he 
attended until his fourteenth year, when 
he entered the printing office of his 
father, the late A. E. Dambly, who pub- 
lished the German Der Neutralist, one of 
the oldest German weeklies in the State. 
In 1885 Mr. Dambly's father died, when 
he assumed the management of the busi- 
ness and the editorial control of the 
paper. In 1888 the estate, in the name 
of which the business was continued and 
still is, started an English weekly paper 
in connection with the German and 
named it The Montgomery Transcript. 
Mr. Dambly also assumed the editorial management of this paper, which, 
although less than seven years old, is one of the most successful weeklies in 
that county of upwards of forty papers. Both papers have large and influ- 
ential circulations and are stalwart Republican. Der Neutralist is the 
German Republican organ of the county. Mr. Dambly served as secretary 
of the Republican County Committee of Montgomery County from 1889 to 
1892. He was a member of the Republican Executive Committee for three 
years and its secretary in 1891. In 1889 he was elected delegate to the 
Republican State Convention at Harrisburg. He has been serving as School 
Director of his township since 1891. He is a director of the Perkiomen 
Valley Building and Loan Association of Collegeville and president of the 
Skippack Society for the Recovery of Stolen Horses. Since 1887 he has 
been superintendent of the Sunday-school of his native village. At the 
Republican County Convention of his county in 1892 there were twelve can- 
didates for the Assembly. Mr. Dambly was one of the five named on the 
first ballot for that office, his vote being third highest. At the November 
election he was elected by eight plurality. In 1894 he was re-elected by 
over 3,000 plurality. During the session of 1895 Mr. Dambly served 
on the following Committees : Appropriations, Centennial Affairs, 
Geological Survey, Printing and Vice and Immorality. Mr. Dambly is in 
possession of his family history, which dates from the year 11 12. The first 
known member of the family was Gibon of Ambly, who was a resident of 
the province of Champagne, where he owned large estates. 



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FRANK N. MOORE was born in Wind- 
ham Township, Bradford County, 
Pennsylvania, April n, 1858. He went 
through the common schools of his native 
county and afterwards took a two years' 
course at the Wyoming Seminary, Kings- 
ton, Pa. He comes of revolutionary 
ancestry, his grandfather having been a 
veteran of the War of 181 2. From the 
green hills of Vermont the family came 
down through the Empire State in Con- 
estogas, stopped awhile near Owego, N. 
V., and at last settled in Bradford County. 
Like his father before him, Frank is an 
extensive dealer in stock and farms it on 
a large scale. In 1882 he went to Kan- 
sas and started a cattle ranch. For five 
years he played cowboy and became an 
expert horseman. The lessons in horsemanship learned on the plains he 
has not forgotten, and there are few if any better horseback riders in the 
State to-day than he. In 1885 he came back to his native hills, more than 
ever convinced that there is no soil like that of old Pennsylvania. In 1891 
he was elected a Justice of the Peace, the only township office he has ever 
held. The people of Bradford County are, perhaps, the most restless and 
independent of any in the Commonwealth. They dislike anything that 
smacks of bossism. In 1890 they concluded to rebuke the leaders and 
smash the party machine. A fusion ticket, composed of Independent Re- 
publicans and Democrats, was nominated and was triumphantly successful, 
sweeping away the usual magnificent Republican majority. It has required 
diplomacy to win the people back to their old allegiance to the Republican 
party. The fusionists tried the same experiment in 1892 that had worked so 
well in 1S90, but through the influence of such conscientious Republicans as 
Mr. Moore, the " Old Guard " wheeled into line and he was elected Repre- 
sentative of that county by nearly 3,000 majority. In 1894 Mr. Moore 
defeated the highest Democrat on the legislative ticket by over 4,400. In 
1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and introduced the 
bill for the creation of the Department of Agriculture, which became a law 
during the session. He also served on the Committees on Vice and Immor- 
ality, Ways and Means, Retrenchment and Reform and Compare Bills and 
is a member of the Grange Legislative Committee. Mr. Moore is a hard- 
working, conscientious member, adhering strictly to his duties. When he 
makes a speech upon any measure he says what he has to say in a clear and 
forcible manner. 



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PAMUEE BRUCE COCHRANE, of 
O Armstrong County, was born in Arm- 
strong County Jan. 17, [860. He says: 
"I was educated at the plow-handles, 
mowing scythe, common schools, acad- 
emy, normal school and college, and was 
married on Dec. 6, 1894, at Carnegie, 
Pa., to Miss Maym Pasco. Through the 
courtesy of an intelligent constituency 
am serving my fourth term in the House 
of Representatives. Two years ago in a 
farewell address promised my colleagues 
that the Legislature should know me 
no more. Knew better at the time but 
could not resist the temptation to emu- 
late the noble example set us by so many 
renowned actors and famous singers from 
abroad, who are with us year after year 
playing 'a farewell engagement.' They come to charm us because our 
people are so ready and willing to be fooled. I continue to represent my 
county because my constituents think no one else can do it so well. As 
this book is to be circulated only among my colleagues I take the liberty to 
omit many of the incidents of my valuable (to me) life. They don't care 
how many State or County Conventions I have attended nor how many votes 
I had at the last election. Some of our members are seated only after a 
legislative contest and are as much respected as if they had been elected by 
a thousand majority. It isn't worth while bragging about one's self. I would 
rather pay a cheap newspaper man on the outside for doing it. My legisla- 
tive experience is likely to end with this session. It has been a pleasant 
and profitable experience to me in every way except that of making money. 
I have made the acquaintance of some of the best men in the world and am 
egotistic enough to claim a goodly number of these as friends. If I over- 
estimate to the extent that they should all forget me, my right to remember 
them still remains. Nevertheless, I advise all young men to stay out of 
politics. To be early established in a business or profession is better than 
the best office in the gift of a constituency. ' ' 



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J. BALDWIN, one of the mem- 
bers of the House from Delaware 
County, was born in East Bradford, 
Chester County, March i, 1853. He 
attended school and worked on his father's 
farm until he attained the age of sixteen 
years. He learned the trade of house 
carpenter and prosecuted it for several 
years. At twenty-one he was married 
and entered the mercantile business, in 
which he remained until 1893, since 
which time he has been devoting himself 
to agricultural pursuits on his farm in 
Delaware County. A portion of his life 
was spent in the western part of this 
country. During the administration of 
President Harrison he was Postmaster at 
Chadd's Ford, but soon after the inaugu- 
ration of Mr. Cleveland resigned his position for political reasons. He has 
been actively in politics for sixteen years and has done effective service as a 
stump speaker in his county. In 1894 was the first time he ran for any 
office of any consequence, when he broke the custom established by the 
Republican Party of Delaware County by defeating Representative Heyburn 
for the second term. Mr. Baldwin's majority over his Democratic com- 
petitor was the largest ever given a Republican candidate for any office in 
Delaware County, reaching about 6,400. While he took a lively interest in 
all important legislation at the session of 1895, Mr. Baldwin was particularly 
active in promoting the good of the farmers of the State. As a debater he 
displayed great skill, and being possessed of a far-reaching voice, his remarks 
were heard by every member in the hall of the House. He served on the 
Committees of Ways and Means, Agriculture, Geological Survey and 
Constitutional Reform. 






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JOHN R. FARR, of the First District. 
Lackawanna, was born in Hyde Park, 
Scranton, July 18, 1857. After receiving 
an ordinary public school education he 
learned type-setting. On the completion 
of his apprenticeship he prepared himself 
in a classical course for college and en- 
tered Lafayette, but did not complete it. 
He was afterward city editor of the Scran- 
ton Republican and is now editor and pro- 
prietor of the Courier- Progress, Scranton. 
He served four years as a member of the 
Board of Control of that city, of which he 
was assistant secretary part of two years 
and secretary one year. Mr. Farr has 
given particular attention to educational 
matters, and in the session of 1891 in- 
troduced and championed a compulsory 
educational bill. The bill passed both branches of the Legislature and was 
the first to pass in the State, but to the great disappointment of the friends 
of education it was vetoed by Governor Pattison. In 1893 he intro- 
duced the measure, which was again vetoed by Governor Pattison. In 
1895 he for the third time introduced the bill to compel children between the 
ages of eight and thirteen to attend schools, and both branches of the Legis- 
lature passed it by large majorities. Mr. Farr's educational bills have given 
him a State reputation. No measures before the Legislature have awakened 
a greater interest in the State than those championed by him. At the 
sessions of 1893 and 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Education, 
which position he filled with conspicuous ability. He is one of the most 
active and intelligent members of the House and has a promising future. 
Mr. Farr is the author of the free school book law enacted during the session 
of 1893. This measure has been of great benefit to the people and the cause 
of education. It has resulted in a large increase in the attendance at the 
public schools. 




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JOHN M. MARTIN, of Grove City, 
Mercer County, was born in Wilming- 
•- ton Township, Lawrence County, 
Pennsylvania, August 2, 1848. He re- 
mained in that place until he was about 
eighteen years of age, attending the com- 
mon schools and Westminster College. 
On leaving his native village he began 
the study of medicine with Dr. John 
Hamilton, of Allegheny, and Dr. W. R. 
Hamilton, of Allegheny, alternating it 
between the two physicians, who were 
brothers. Subsequently he attended the 
medical college of Bellevue, New York, 
from which institution he graduated in 
1874. Since that time Dr. Martin has 
been practicing medicine in Grove City. 
He has served nine years as Common 
Councilman of that town, and last November was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives by the largest majority ever given a candidate in 
Mercer County. Dr. Martin is of Scotch- Irish descent. He has built up a 
large medical practice at his home, and as a legislator has been very atten- 
tive to his duties, although not inclined to discussion. Dr. Martin has been 
a member of National Guard of Pennsylvania for the past ten years, and is 
now holding the position of Adjutant Surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment. 
He was a member of the Sanitation, Military and several other Committees 
at the session of 1895. 





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AVID MILLER ANDERSON, of 
Washington, was born in Beaver 
County, Pa., November, 30, 1837. He 
was educated in the public schools and 
at the academy at Hookstown and 
Beaver. In 1854, with his father and 
brother, he went to California, remaining 
there until 1859, when he took a trip to 
Chili, which country he made his home 
until November, i86r. On his return to 
the United States he read medicine for a 
short time and served with credit as act- 
ing medical cadet at Camp Curtin, Har- 
risburg. After one course of lectures at 
Ann Harbor, he received a commission 
as Assistant Surgeon, Twelfth United 
States colored troops, in April, 1864, and 
served until the close of the war. In 
1866 he was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He prac- 
ticed medicine with success for a number of years in Washington County, 
but was finally compelled to relinquish his practice to devote all his atten- 
tion to his coal interests. Mr. Anderson is a firm believer in the principles 
and doctrines of the Republican Party and takes an active interest in its 
welfare in the county which he has the honor to in part represent in the 
Legislature. At the session of 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on 
Iron and Coal and served on the Committees on Railroads, Appropriations, 
Labor and Industry and Manufactures. In 1S65 Mr. Anderson was married 
to Miss Charity S. Wright, of Washington County. They have two children 
— a son and daughter. Mr. Anderson is serving his second term in the 
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JOHN S. WILSON, of Columbia, Lan- 
caster County, was born December 
29, 1863, in that town. He received a 
thorough education in the public schools 
of his native borough and also at Cauan- 
daigua, N. Y. He always took much 
interest in athletic sports and devoted 
much time to perfecting himself in these 
recreations. His father being a man of 
considerable means his son John was 
allowed to follow his own inclinations, 
which soon carried him out of the school- 
room and into the far away west, finally 
locating in New Mexico, where, after 
roving about, he associated himself with 
a ranchman and took up the life of a 
cattle ranger. He became very fond of 
this life, but at the earnest solicitation of 
his parents and friends he returned to his home at Columbia in 1883 and 
entered his father's hardware store. In 1892 he was nominated by the 
Republican Party for the House of Representatives and elected a member, 
and in 1894 was re-elected by a large majority. At the session of 1895 he 
was a member of the Committees on City Passenger Railways, Compare 
Bills, Insurance, Iron and Coal and Judicial Apportionment. 





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ENRY WORTHINGTON GRIGSBY 
of Lawrence County was born in She- 
nan go Township, Lawrence County, where 
he resides. He was graduated from the 
New Castle One-Study College in 1876 
and from there went to Bethany College, 
West Virginia, taking a classical course 
and graduating in 1879. He is a farmer 
and one of the owners of the daily and 
weekly Guardian, and is also engaged in 
real estate business in New Castle. In 
1892 he was elected a Representative of 
his native county on the Republican ticket, 
receiving the largest vote of any man on 
the ticket, and in 1894 was re-elected with- 
out opposition. At the session of 1895 
he served on the Committees on Educa- 
cation, Insurance, Mines and Mining and 
Banks and Banking. Among the numerous bills he introduced were those 
relating to pure food and pure liquors. He also read in place a good roads' 
bill, a bill to protect the American flag from foreign insult, and a bill to pro- 
hibit the granting of appropriations by the State to institutions wholly or 
partially under the control of sectarian denominations. 




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EDWIN WILSON SMILEY was horn 
in Franklin, Venango County, Pa., 
September 12, 1846, and is the third son 
and fifth child of John H. and Nancy 
Smiley, grandson of Thomas Smiley, a 
pioneer in the settlement of Venango 
County, and a soldier of the War of 
181 2. His ancestors were of Scotch- 
Irish descent, and came to this country 
and settled in central Pennsylvania as 
early as 1730. He was educated in the 
common schools and in the old Franklin 
Academy, from which he graduated in 
his fourteenth year, and in the fall of 
1 859 entered the Citizen printing office at 
Franklin as an apprentice. Since that 
time, with the exception of three years, 
he has been connected with the news- 
paper, as apprentice, compositor, foreman, editor and publisher. In 1863,011 
the first day of July, he enlistel in Company E, Fifty-eighth Regiment, Penn- 
sylvania State Troops, Colonel George H. Benins commanding, for a period 
of three mouths, and served in the Department of the Monongahela, com- 
posed of the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, until regularly 
mustered out of the service with the regiment. On April 1, 1869, he was 
engaged by a company owning the Republican at Tionesta, Forest County, 
to edit and publish that paper, which he did successfully. On April 1, 1870, 
he returned to Franklin, purchased the Citizen newspaper and job printing 
establishment and has edited that paper since that date. Mr. Smiley has- 
been an active Republican for more than twenty years and has never flinched 
in his support of party candidates. He was a delegate to the Republican 
Conventions of 1872-73-74-76-79. In 1876 he was a delegate to the 
National Convention at Cincinnati. He was elected chairman of the Repub- 
lican County Committee of Venango in 1875 and served almost continuously 
for nine terms. In 1888 he was nominated for Congress in the Twenty- 
seventh District by his county, but failed to secure the district nomination. 
In 1876 he was elected Reading Clerk of the State Senate and held that posi- 
tion until 1 88 1. In 1883 he was elected Journal Clerk of the Senate and 
performed the duties of that office until 1891, when he was elected Chief 
Clerk and re-elected in 1893 and 1895. Mr. Smiley is distinguished as a 
parliamentarian, and recognized as an authority on all matters pertaining to 
legislation. As a newspaper writer he is logical and forcible, especially on 
political subjects. His untiring industry and devotion to duty, together 
with his conceded ability, commend him to public favor, as is attested by 
his lonor-continued service in the Senate of Pennsylvania. 



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TAMES MONROE CARSON was 
born in North Beaver Township, 
Lawrence County, Pa., Nov. n, 1857. 
His father, William Carson, and his 
mother, whose maiden name was Pru- 
dence Calvin, were of Scotch-Irish de- 
scent and both natives of Lawrence 
County. His paternal great-grandfather 
was a native of Ireland, but coming 
to America prior to the beginning of 
the War of the Revolution, he espoused 
the cause of the colonists and served 
with them as a soldier in their strug- 
gles for Independence. After peace was 
declared he married Rachel Wilson, of 
the State of Delaware, and located in 
Virginia, where he remained until 1799, 
when he settled within the limits of the 
present county of Lawrence. His maternal ancestors emigrated from 
Scotland at the close of the eighteenth century and settled in Western 
Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch removed with his parents, 
in November, 1S68, to Marion Township, Butler County, Pa., and spent 
his youth on his father's farm. He received his education in the public 
schools and from private tutors. In 1873 ne entered the office of the Butler 
Eagle as an apprentice to the printing trade, serving the full novitiate 
term of three years. He afterward worked at his trade in Sharon and 
Sandy Lake. In 1881 he purchased an interest in the Butler Eagle, on 
which paper he learned his trade, and was a member of the firm until 
February last, when he sold his interest. Mr. Carson has always taken an 
active interest in the success of the principles and candidates of his party ; 
was secretary of the Republican County Committee in the Presidential 
campaign of 1888 and has served on other important party committees and 
conferences. He received the unanimous endorsement of his county for 
State Senator in 1892, but Armstrong County being entitled to the district 
nomination it was conceded to Armstrong County's candidate without a 
contest. Mr. Carson was elected Reading Clerk of the Senate of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1 89 1, serving during the regular and extraordinary sessions of that 
year, and was re-elected in 1893 and in 1895 without opposition. Mr. 
Carson as a newspaper editor and publisher combines vigor and terseness as 
a writer with good business ability. As Reading Clerk of the Senate he has 
performed the important duties of the position to the entire satisfaction of 
that body, his reading being rapid and at the same time distinctly audible in 
all parts of the Senate Chamber. He is an earnest, conscientious worker, 
and his genial, courteous manner has made him a favorite with all those 
with whom he has come in contact. 



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265 



JOSEPH ELLISON YOUNG, Journal 
J Clerk of the Senate, was born in 
Philadelphia, January 17, 1858. He was 
educated in the public schools of his 
native city, finishing his educational 
career in the Locust Street Grammar 
School. He afterward entered the gro- 
cery store of Thomas R. Patton, who is 
now Grand Treasurer of the Masonic fra- 
ternity of Pennsylvania. Later he was em- 
ployed in the construction department of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad as contractors' 
clerk, between Philadelphia and Coates- 
ville, and still later was given a position 
at Norristowu on the Schuylkill Valley 
line. He was subsequently transferred 
to the transportation department of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the 
main office in Philadelphia. Three years ago he entered the Department of 
Public Safety of that city. He also served in the office of Receiver of Taxes 
of Philadelphia under the late John Taylor. He is a director of the 
Thirtieth Sectional School Board and is a member of the Bethany Presby- 
terian Sunday-school, taught by John Wanamaker, and the Bethany 
Presbyterian Church. His appointment as Journal Clerk of the Senate was 
made at the instance of Senator Smith, of the hirst District of Philadelphia. 
Mr. Young experienced no difficulty in mastering the details of his position 
and rounded up the sassion of 1895 with a thorough knowledge of his duties. 





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Officers of the Senate. 




TTf ILLIAM JAMES ROBINSON, the 
V V Message Clerk of the Senate, resides 
at Erie, Pa. He was born in Leboenf, 
Erie Comity, March 7, 1854, of Scotch- 
Irish ancestry. His father, William 
Robinson, and his mother, Ann Eliza 
Ford, were natives of Erie county. His 
grandfather, John Robinson, was born in 
County Cork, Ireland, emigrating to this 
country about the year 1800 and settled 
in Eastern Pennsylvania. In 1805 ne 
removed to Erie County and bought a 
large tract of land in Leboeuf Township. 
Subsequently he built a distillery and 
continued in that business for many 
years. His great-grandfather on the 
maternal side was Captain Robert King, 
a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary War and a personal friend ot 
General Lafayette. Captain King had also rendered the State valuable 
service in securing treaties with the Indians, as a reward for which the 
Legislature of Pennsylvania voted him "400 acres of land w^st of the 
Allegheny River." Captain King was the first actual settler in Erie County, 
having removed therefrom Lycoming County in 1794. Mr. Robinson was 
educated in the public and select schools of Mill Village, Pa., and subse- 
quently completed a commercial course. His boyhood was spent on the farm. 
In 1877 he engaged in general merchandising in Mill Village, near the place 
of his birth, and continued in active business for ten years. He bought, in 
1890, an interest in the Erie daily and weekly Dispatch and in April of the follw- 
ing year became the general manager of the Dispatch Publishing Company, 
limited. Under his management the company bought the old Erie Gazette, 
and established, in 1892, the Erie evening News. On September 1, 1894, 
Mr. Robinson sold his newspaper interests and organized the Dispatch Print- 
ing and Engraving Company, becoming the presideut and manager of that 
company. He is also of the firm of Robinson & Sawdey, real estate and 
insurance agents. Mr. Robinson early took an active part in political 
affairs. Casting his first vote for General Hartranft for Governor in 1875, 
he was the following year elected a member of the Erie County Republican 
Executive Committee and has since been continuously identified with the 
organization, serving as secretary for three years and chairman one term. 
In 1886 he was elected treasurer of Erie County, serving three years. Was a 
delegate to the Republican State Conventions of 1879, 1887 and 1889. He 
belongs to the "stalwart" element of the Republican Party, inheriting 
much of his zeal for the party from his father, who was a Whig and an 
uncompromising Republican . 



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267 




HERMAN P. 
rian. was 1 



MILLER, Senate Libra- 
.s born on his grandfather's 
farm in Fairview Township, York 
County, Pa., Dec. 15, 1863. When two 
years of age his parents removed to 
Harrisburg. His education, which was 
limited, owing to the early death of his 
father, was received in the public schools 
of his adopted city. His political career 
began in 1876, when, at the request oi 
Hon. J. D. Cameron, he was appointed 
to succeed an elder brother as a page in 
the Senate of Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller 
was re-appointed each succeeding session 
until 1879, when he was taken into the 
office of the Senate Librarian, J. C. 
Delaney, as an assistant. He continued 
in this position until July 1, 1890, when, 
upon the resignation of Mr. Delaney, he was appointed Librarian by the late 
Hon. Russell Errett, then Chief Clerk. At the opening of the session of 
1 89 1 he was re-appointed by Chief Clerk E. W. Smiley for the term of two 
years, again in January, 1893, and again in 1895. Since 1887 he has 
annually assisted the compiler, Thomas B. Cochran, in the compilation of 
" Smull's Hand Book." 




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Officers of the Senate. 



FRANK LLOYD BARDENS, Chap- 
lain of the Senate, was born in the 
Twenty -second Ward, Philadelphia. He 
attended the public schools of his home 
and graduated at the Germantovvn Acad- 
emy June 18, 1881, pursuing further 
studies at Bucknell College and Crozer 
Seminary. It has been his lot to toil 
and work to secure his education and 
advancement in life. He has been noted 
^M ^T W. f° r evan g e li st i c work in York, Adams, 

^jdW ^^r .^^fe^^ Cumberland, Perry and Dauphin Coun- 

■ jM 1^^ ties. He was ordained to the gospel 

B I ministry January 7, 1886, at Bald Eagle 

I Baptist Church, Centre County, where 

J his labors were crowned with great suc- 

■ ^MH^E^SsEcl cess. He served as pastor at East 

Stroudsburg Church for a short period, 
where he received a large sum from J. H. Rockafellar to pay off its indebt- 
edness. Thence he went to Crozer and finished his studies in June, 1894. 
Prior to his graduation he was elected pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist 
Church of Harrisburg, Pa., December 1, 1893, of which he is still pastor. 
"Asa boy he was one of the brightest scholars in the old boy's grammar 
school," said the German town (Pa.) hidependent. One of the Harrisburg 
papers spoke thus of his appointment as the Chaplain of the Senate : " The 
popular and energetic young minister has been appointed Chaplain of the 
present Senate and pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Thus far he 
has filled the position with honor to himself and satisfaction to all the mem- 
bers of the Church. He is most faithful to the interests of his people and 
hence enjoys their deepest confidence and highest respect. He is a man of 
commanding intellectual power and high moral character. Now in the 
youth of life, he has the highest prospect of a very useful career." 





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269 




A BRAHAM D. FETTEROLF, Chief 
I~\ Clerk of the House, was born in 
Montgomery County, Pa., June 4, [850. 
He attended the public schools of his dis- 
trict, and subsequently completed his edu- 
cation at Freeland Seminary I now Ursi- 
nus College), then under the principalship 
of his brother, A. H. Fetterolf, now presi- 
dent of Girard College. At sixteen years 
of age he engaged in teaching public school 
in Berks and Montgomery Counties and 
so continued until he attained his majority. 
At this time he engaged in mercantile 
pursuits in Philadelphia. From 1871 to 
1875 he was engaged as a lumber inspector, 
leaving that position to engage in the flour 
and feed business on Market street. From 
1888 to 1890 he was a member of the firm 
of The Roberts Machine Company, Collegeville, Pa. He has always been 
an uncompromising Republican, taking a great interest in politics. In 1882 
he was elected Justice of the Peace for the township of Upper Providence, 
and served until he resigned to accept a county office. During the time he 
held this position he acted in many trust capacities, settling a large number 
of estates of decedents and assignments, in all of which he displayed signal 
ability. In 1885 he was appointed Transcribing Clerk in the House and the 
following session was promoted to Speaker's Clerk. In 1889 he was Journal 
Clerk and in 1S93 Resident Clerk. His promotions were regular, as in 1895 
he was unanimously elected Chief Clerk of the House. Mr. Fetterolf was 
Senatorial delegate to the State Republican Convention in 1886. In 1890 he 
was nominated for Register of Wills of Montgomery County, but failed of 
election by seventy-seven majority in a year when the Democrats elected 
their county ticket by good majorities. He was appointed Deputy Clerk of 
the Courts of Montgomery County in 1891 . In 1892 Mr. Fetterolf was unani- 
mously elected chairman of the Republican County Committee of Mont- 
gomery County, and conducted the campaign of that year so successfully as 
to elect the entire ticket with a single exception. He resigned the chairman- 
ship of the Republican County Committee for the purpose of accepting the 
secretaryship of the Republican State Committee, on which committee he 
served during the campaigns of 1893 and 1894. Mr. Fetterolf has been secre- 
tary of the Perkiomen Valley Mutual Fire Insurance Company since July, 
1889, one of the largest and best mutual insurance companies of the country, 
and has also been secretary of the Perkiomen Valley Building and Loan Asso- 
ciation, and was several vears a director in the National Bank of Schweuksville. 



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Officers of the House of Representatives. 




of 1 89 1 and was re-appointed 
House in 1893. In 1895 he 
filled that position, as he had 



T ERE B. REX, of Huntingdon, 
Pa., was born in Clearfield County, 
September 30, 1859. His parents re- 
moved in the following year to Hunt- 
ingdon County. He was educated in the 
public schools at Mapleton in that 
county, Williamsport, Pa., and Amherst, 
Mass. He adopted the profession of the 
law and was admitted to practice in the 
courts of Huntingdon County in 1885. 
He has been connected with the Repub- 
lican State Committee since 1S89. In 
1892 he was appointed one of the secre- 
taries of the Republican State Committee 
and has conducted the detail work of 
each campaign since that time. He 
was first appointed Reading Clerk of the 
House of Representatives in the session 
to the same position at the organization of the 
was chosen Resident Clerk of that body, and 
that of Reading Clerk, with great acceptability. 




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271 



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TAMES E. W ATKINS, Reading Clerk 

| of the House, was born April 5, 1867, in 

/^ ^jy. Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, Wales. 

/ riA When three years of age he came to America 

with his parents in [.S70, arriving in the 
Borough of Taylor in August, where he 
has resided ever since. At ten years of 
age he entered the breaker as a slate picker, 
remaining there three years. He next went 
into the mines as door-tender and sub- 
sequently rose, by successive gradations, 
to the positions of helper, driver, runner 
and laborer. During the winter months 
he attended the night schools of the town- 
ship of Old Forge, and when the mines 
were idle he attended the day school. 
During the winter of 1886 he attended 
Woods' Business College at Scranton, re- 
ceiving one of the first diplomas granted by that institution. In 1887 he 
passed a highly successful examination before the County Superintendent 
of common schools, and in the fall of the same year he left the mines to be- 
come a teacher in the public schools, where he remained for six years, during 
which period of successful pedagogic experience he became Supervising Prin- 
cipal, succeeding the Hon. F. R. Coyne, who was elected to represent the 
Third Legislative District of Lackawanna County in the session of 1891 . In 
1890 he took a special course at Cornell University, and in 1893 entered the 
Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing his legal studies 
until his appointment as Reading Clerk ot the House of Representatives. He 
is a member of the Lackawanna County bar and has held several positions of 
honor and trust, among them being those of Tax Collector and Auditor. He 
is at present and has been for the past six years the chairman of the Republi- 
can Standing Committee of the Third Legislative District and has represented 
the Republican Clubs of Taylor at several State League Conventions. 



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272 



Officers of the House of Representatives. 




E. 



N. RANDOLPH, Journal Clerk of 
/. the House, was born in Port Perry, 
Allegheny County, May 31, 1856. Ne- 
cessity compelled him to strike out for 
himself at the age of twelve years, and 
his education was consequently limited. 
He attended schools in the vicinity of his 
birth and in Pittsburg. He was a 
Western Union telegraph messenger for 
several years and as he reached a more 
mature age drifted into the florist busi- 
ness in Pittsburg, in which he was very 
successful. In 18S4 he was given a 
clerkship in the Controller's office of 
Allegheny County, which position he 
still retains. He is an active party 
worker and has been secretary of the 
Republican State League Committee for 
four years. He also has been secretary of the Allegheny County Republican 
Committee. In 1895 he was chosen Journal Clerk of the House without 
opposition, and the arduous and responsible duties of that position were 
acceptably and faithfully performed by him. 




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"PORREST R. NICHOLS, the Message 
1 Clerk of the House of Representa- 
tives, was born March 2<S, 1845, in Cam- 
bridge Borough, Crawford County, Pa., 
and received a good common school 
education. He was connected for seven- 
teen years with the First National Bank 
of Conneautville, ten as cashier. He 
was elected a member of the House in 
1885 and in 1887 was re-elected. Mr. 
Nichols was selected Journal Clerk at 
the session of 1891, Transcribing Clerk 
in 1893 and Message Clerk in 1895. He 
made a creditable member of the House 
and filled all the subsequent positions 
with which he was honored in an accepta- 
ble manner. He is thoroughly posted 
with regard to the work required to be 
done by the clerical force of the House and is fully capable of performing 
not only the duties of the Message Clerk but those of any of the other Clerk- 
ships. 





274 



Officers of the House of Representatives. 




HENRY HUHN, Speaker Walton's 
Cleik, was born in Philadelphia 
July 3, 1832. He was educated in pri- 
vate and public schools of that city and 
is a graduate and alumnus of the Central 
High School. He learned the trade of 
printing in the establishment of Mears & 
Dusenberry, in Philadelphia, but health 
failing, by the advice of his physician, 
he removed to Schuylkill County, where 
he became chief clerk and paymaster 01 
the Little Schuylkill Navigation Rail- 
road and Coal Company. He studied 
law with the Hon. James Ryan, who was 
afterwards elected President Judge of the 
Courts of Schuylkill County. He built 
the Edge worth Powder Works in that 
county, now owned by the Duponts, and 
was engaged in the coal business a number of years. He was nominated 
and elected from Schuylkill County to the House of Representatives of 
Pennsylvania in October, i860, and was a member of that body at the break- 
ing out of the war in 1861-62, and was active in all measures to place Penn- 
sylvania on a war footing. He removed to Philadelphia in 1867, and was 
elected to represent the Ffteenth Ward in the Common Council of Pniiaclel- 
phia in 1868 for two years and was re elected by the same constituency for 
the succeeding term of 187 r and 1872. He was elected President ot 
Common Council in 187 1 and unanimously re-elected President for 1872. 
Upon the adoption of the new constitution, he was elected by the same 
constituency to the House of Representatives for 1875-76, and was re-elected 
by a largely increased majority to serve in 1877-78. He served as Speaker 
pro tern, of the House, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and 
as member of the Committee on Appropriations and other leading committees. 
Subsequently he occupied the position of Reading Clerk, Speaker's Clerk, 
and Chief Clerk of the House, and is now recognized as one of the leading 
parlimentarians in the State. His decisions on questions of parliamentary 
procedure are sought for by presiding officers all over the country. While 
President of Common Council he served as a director of Giord College, 
member of the Board of Trusts, Commissioner of Fairmount Park and 
Public Buildings and cx-o/ficio member of all of the Committees of Common 
Council, in all of which positions he commanded the respsct aid esteem of 
his fellow-citizens of all shades of political opinion. 



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275 



BENJAMIN B. HAMLIN. Chaplain 
of the House of Representatives, was 
born August 28, 1823, at Kin/.na, War- 
ren County, Pa., about twelve miles above 
the town of Warren, on the Allegheny 
river. Outside of a little schooling he re- 
ceived in the Mifflinburg Academy his edu- 
cational opportunities were very limited. 
At an early age he determined to enter the 
ministry and fitted himself for it by close ap- 
plication to the necessary studies. After 
filling the position of local preacher, or 
exhorter, for several years he was admitted 
to the Baltimore Conference of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church in June, [848. 
Since then he has been a clergyman in 
the Methodist Church . I hiring seventeen 
years of his ministry he was a Presiding 
Elder. He has been a delegate to the General Conference three times and 
has taken a prominent part in the advancement of the spiritual interests of the 
denomination to which he has been so long and uninterruptedly attached. At 
an early stage of his ministry he resided in Baltimore, Maryland, and left for 
Pennsylvania about the time John Brown made his daring raid into Virginia, 
which cost him his life. Rev. Mr. Hamlin was assigned to the Ridge Ave- 
nue Methodist Episcopal Church last year, and at the beginning of the session 
of the House of Representatives of 1895 was appointed Chaplain of that body. 




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INDEX. 



THE STATE DEPARTMENTS. 



Page 

Barnett, Janus !•', \w 

Beitler, Lewis F xxiv 

Brown, Isaac B., xxix 

Campbell, James xx 

Clark, J. M., xxiii 

I (elaney, J. C xxii 

Edge, Thomas J xiv 

Bgle, Win. I [., xix 

Elkin, John P wvi 

Eyre, T. Lawrence, xxxvi 

Gearhart, Wilson M., xxxiii 

Gilkesou, Benj. F., xiii 

Glenn, John A., xxxvii 

Hastings, Daniel II vii 

Haywood, Benj. J. xxvii 

Houck, Harry xxx 



Page 

Jackson, Samuel M., . xv 

Kelly, George C xxxiy 

Lambert, James II. xii 

I. alia, lames W., xvii 

Lyon, Walter viii 

McCorniick, Henry C x 

McCulloch, Samuel W., xxviii 

Morrison, fohnW., xxxii 

Mylin, Amos II., xvi 

Nesbit, John Woods xxxv 

Reeder, Frank ix 

Robinson, Thomas, xxi 

Schaeffer, Nathan C, xviii 

Stewart, Thomas J., xi 

Stewart, John Q., xxxi 



THE SENATE. 



Andrews, William H., 29 

Baker, Jesse M., 4S 

Bannon, Anthony !•'., 28 

Becker, KUvood, 5 

Brewer, W. I" 14 

Brown, John II., 23 

Cochran, J. Henry 35 

Coyle, John J., ?5 

Critchfield, N. B 37 

Crouse, Jacob, . 10 

Flinn, William 51 

Fruit, James S .... 31 

Gobin, J. P. S 34 

Grady, John C, 9 

Green, Henry D., 42 

Hacktnberg, William H., 44 

Haines, Harvey W., 22 

Hardenbergh, Edmund B., 30 

Hyde, William H., 40 

Kauffman, C. C, 26 

Keefer, Luther R., 41 

Kennedy, Arthur, 4g 

Kline, Clarence W., 43 

Landis, John Herr, 24 

Laubach, E. H., 32 



Lemon, John A. , 18 

McCarrell, S. J. M 11 

McCreary, David B 19 

McQuown, Martin Luther, 27 

Meredith, William B., 47 

Milleisen, Alfred W., 38 

Mitchell, 15. B., 16 

Mitchell, James George, 25 

Mover, Henry G., 21 

Osbourn, Francis A., 6 

Penrose, Boies 8 

Porter, Charles A 7 

Rowland, Lafayette, 45 

Saylor, Henry D., 46 

Shortt, Charles M., 39 

Smith, George Handy, . • • 4 

Snyder, William Preston, 17 

Steel, S. S 52 

Stiles, Harry G., 20 

Thomas, Charles Wesley, 3 

Upperman, John, 5° 

Vaughau, James C 33 

Walton, Daniel S 13 

White, Samuel P 15 

Woods, Joseph Milliken 12 



HOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES. 



Abrams, Elias, 220 

Ames, Charles Dudley, 62 

Anderson, David Miller, . 257 

Andrews, W. A. T., 77 

Baldwin, Clark T 58 

Baldwin, R. J., 254 

Beam, Wm. H., . . 211 

Beyerlein, Adolph, Jr., 2C2 

Biddle, J. S., 125 

Bliss, Ward R 190 

Bolard, Jacob, 73 

Bolles, Courtlandt K., 210 

Brown, P. W., 6;-, 

Buckwalter, Joseph W., 1S4 

Burrell, L. A., 

Clarency, James, 222 

Cochrane, Samuel B., 253 

Collins, Emerson ■ . . no 

Comly, Franklin A., 180 

Compton, John B 170 

Connell, Alex. T., . . . 114 

Conrade, I). Howard 203 

Cotton, Emmett E., i A) 

Creasy, William Trenton, 119 

Crothers, Samuel, 235 

Cruise, John, . . 21.7 

Culbertson, William M. 162 

Curtin, Harry R., 78 

Curtis, William N., 173 

Dambly, B. Whitman, 251 

DeVelin, John B., 218 

Dixon, George R 249 

Douthett, David B., . . 172 

Dunlap, H. Thomas, 215 

Duttera, Charles H., *4 

Eaton, E. U 109 



Eby, Milton 183 

Ellis, George W. ico 

Funis, J. A. J., 223 

Fair, John R 255 

Fletcher, C. H., .... 236 

Pocht, Benjamin K.. . . 244 

Follweiler, Warren T 182 

I-"<i\\ , John II 221 

Fredericks, James W., 79 

French, J. C. 126 

Fritz, Andrew Lucius, 142 

Funk, HeuryS., 186 

Garvin, Thomas Henry, 195 

Gilmore, J. A 233 

Goentner, John Beans, 198 

Gould, Edward Powell 93 

Graham, James C [89 

Gransback, Henrv, 213 

Griffiths, George, 105 

Grigsby, Henry W • ■ ■ • 259 

(".riner, J. R., 117 

Grover, Frank J. , ic6 

Hammond, James B., L31 

Harrison, John T., 228 

Harshaw, W. ]., 9°. 

Harvey, John C 148 

Hawkins, Charles A., 66 

Heagy, John M., 124 

Heidelbaugh, Milton, 150 

Hermann, Charles Wilson, ... S8 

Hershey, Washington I... 127 

Herzog. Jacob B., 193 

Hicks, George W. B., 232 

Hollenbach. George C, . . 151 

Hopwood, George, ... 90 

Hunter, A. B., 177 



282 



Tht Index. 



Page 

James, Henry F., i6y 

Jeffrey, William R 247 

Jennings, B. Worth, 144 

Kearns, John, 159 

Keen, W. H. Clay, 135 

Kephart, Harmon M 123 

Kerkeslager, M. W., 227 

Kern, A. J , 9 2 

Kerr, Charles M., 59 

Kevser, William H., 225 

Kidd, William M 216 

King, John W., 102 

Kinner, Floyd Lee, 240 

Kipp, John A 175 

Kratz, Henry W., 69 

Knnkel, George, 139 

Lawrence, George V., 185 

Lemon, Michael B., 157 

Littley, William 230 

Long, William H '45 

l.nckii, Edward M., 68 

Lvtle, P. M 199 

Mackrell, Archibald, 158 

Mansfield, Ira F., 250 

Mapel.J. A 192 

Martin, Algernon L-, T 44 

Martin, Jacob H., . . 95 

Martin, John M., 256 

Marshall, John II., 104 

Marshall, William T., 155 

Mast, Frank, 243 

Mattox, John L., 188 

Mattrer, Jeremiah, 113 

Merrick, Walter T., 191 

Millard, Humphrey J., 179 

Miller, William Henry 112 

Milliken, Thomas O., 121 

Moore, Daniel F., 239 

Moore, Frank N., . . 252 

Moore, James N., 129 

Moore, Linus W., 70 

Muehlbronner, Charles A 153 

Mullin, Henry H., 86 

Murphy, Samuel D 138 

McAllister, Theodore, 98 

McClain, Frank B., 118 

McDonald, Wm. J 156 

McFarlane, George L., 163 

McGaughey, John 101 

Newbury, Grant, 89 

Newman, Albert Scott, 152 

Nickell, William 23S 

Niles, Jerome E., 141 

North, Herman H., 197 

O'Malley, Charles P , 115 

Orme, Seth, 64 

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Page, 



96 



Parcels, Walter IL, 72 

Pascoe, John H .... 133 

Patchin, John H 61 

Patterson, D. Hunter, 81 

Patterson, James, 83 

Patterson, John K 96 

Patterson, Samuel D., . . 122 

Peltz, Samuel 231 

Pennewill, Walton, 217 



Page 

Philips, Thomas J., 120 

Pomeroy, A. Nevin, 148 

Porter, W. Newton, 176 

Prichard, James 181 

Raven, Alfred H., 224 

Raymond, J. Ross 171 

Reed, Franklin, 229 

Reese, Daniel J., . . 200 

Reeves, William 206 

Reinoehl, John K 147 

Rice, Hampton W., 65 

Richey, Joseph T., 166 

Riebel, John H., 226 

Riter, Frank M 212 

Rhoads, George W., ic7 

Rhode, Cyrus J., 82 

Robb, James McB., 164 

Rutledge, William IL, . . 131 

Rutter, II. H 87 

Salinger, Richard, 237 

Salter, Samuel, ... . 208 

Saunders, Oscar P., 204 

Scaife, Oliver P., 154 

Schrink, Gustavus C, 74 

Schwarz, Richard F., 137 

Scott, John M., 209 

Seanor, N., . . 174 

Seyfert, Augustus G., 246 

Shuey, D. C. 80 

Singer, David, 205 

Smiley, A. W., 60 

Smith, Robert, 234 

Smith, William C, 194 

Smith, William O., 146 

Snively, E S., 187 

Spangler, Benjamin K., 71 

Staples, S. S., 57 

Stewart, William Francis, 219 

Stineman, Jacob C 140 

Stuck, Benjamin I'"., 75 

Talbot, D. Smith, 24s 

Tiffany. H. D 94 

Tillbrook, Thomas 16S 

Underwood, Nelson F., 11 1 

Vare, George A., 201 

Wallace, Samuel, 167 

Walton, Henry F 56 

Waunemacher, Perry, 76 

Weaver, David E., 161 

Weible, Jacob H 136 

Weiss, Webster Clay, 91 

Welliver, Llovd Wagner, itS 

Wenk, J.E., 116 

West, David, 97 

Wevand, Jacob, ' 143 

Wilcox, Emmett H., 12S 

Williams, T. H., .... 130 

Wilson, Hugh L., 242 

Wilson, John S., 258 

Wilson, Matthew M., 165 

W T oodriug, William Henry . . 241 

Womelsdorf, Philip f;., 85 

Wyatt, Joseph 132 

Young, James L., .... 67 

Zehnder, William T., ... 214 

Zulick, C. B., 17S 



OFFICERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



Bardeus, Rev. F. L., 268 

Carson, James M., 264 

Fetterolf, A. D 269 

Hamlin, Rev. Beuj. B., 275 

Huhn, Henry, 274 

Miller, II. P 267 

Nichols, Forrest R. 273 



Randolph, E. N., 272 

Rex, Jere B., 270 

Robinson, Wm. J., 266 

Smiley, E. W., ... 263 

Watkins, James E., 271 

Young, Joseph E-, 265 



LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENTS. 



Calvert, II. S., 279 

Christy, W. J., 279 

Derr, H. H., 278 

Dohoney, J. P., 279 

Hall, H., 279 

Hoban, P. J 278 

Hudson, Sam., 279 

Israel, James 279 

Jones, Tims. M., 278 

Jones, Wellington G., 278 



M'Cain.Geo. N 27S 

Pedrick, A. K 278 

Potts, H. D., 278 

Rodearmel, Wm., 27S 

Schoch, H. B. 279 

Stackpole, E. J., 27S 

Stenger, W. R 278 

Sweeney, Jas. A 279 

Wanbaugh, G. M., 279 






